Quotes About Independence

I ain't against gods and goddesses, in their place. But they've got to be the ones we make ourselves. Then we can take 'em to bits for the parts when we don't need 'em anymore, see?

At that moment we knew that as long as we used our brains, we were not victims. By striking out to write our own ticket, we would grow up to be like our mother, winners.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

On that same trip, my brother and I camped against a red rock wall and in the morning when we awoke, a boulder had fallen between us.

I didn't want Mother to come … I needed to live my own life and not be inhabited by hers. But when she came to visit, we transformed ourselves into doves cooing and coddling each other as we walked and talked in the park for hours, Mother and I adapted to each other anywhere and everywhere each time we were together.

Mother left us alone to enjoy our own company while she enjoyed hers and reclaimed precious time for herself. When she wasn't living her solitude, she was contemplating it.

The whole world isn't out to hurt you, Jane. - Dean Because I don't let it - Jane

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

Sometimes, she thought, you've got to accept a helping hand. Sometimes you've got to admit you can't do it all by yourself.

Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

I am trapped in my own snowbound valley. I am the only one who can rescue me.

THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no!

At eighteen, the twins are old enough to choose their own clothes and their own boyfriends, and even if Frankie doesn't approve of their choices, she tries to keep her objections to herself. Forbidden fruit is the sweetest of all; the travails of the Capulets and Montagues taught every parent that much.

Then she walked out of his church, and back into her own world.

She was who she was, and either you accepted it or you could just go to hell.

Atalar?m?zla ba??m?z olmazsa, hiçbir ÅŸeyle ve hiç kimseyle ba?? olmayan, geliÅŸigüzel sal?nan, yapayaln?z toz zerreleri oluruz.

ya mutlu olmay? seçeceksin ya da mutsuzluÄŸu. BaÅŸka kimse senin ad?na karar veremez.

But she couldn't shake off her annoyance at her dad, at her brothers, at Father Donnelly, at every man who presumed to tell a woman what her duty was.

Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else.

For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.

It is better to live alone than to have a fool for a companion.

Independence Army (BIA) under Colonel Suzuki's enthusiastic supervision. Suzuki himself had taken the Burmese nom de guerre Bo Mogyo, meaning "the Thunderbolt," an astute choice that played on the (allegedly) old local prophecy that "the umbrella" (meaning "the British") would eventually be struck down by "the thunderbolt." Tokyo had yet to decide its Burma policy as both the

We are all surrounded by other autonomous people who don't always behave as we'd like.

das protestantische Wort ist nicht an Örtlichkeit gebunden, oder von einem gemalten Sternenhimmel abhängig.