Quotes About Independence

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

The farm life, the space, the muck, I absolutely loved it - it was like having your own kingdom.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

I love my sons, I love my husband, and I love my country. But in kingdoms of men, there are few - if any - choices for women. Or the choices are such that there is no greater pain than having to choose.

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

I don't give a crap about what fans or people say, they can kiss my butt.

You calling me anything doesn't affect my life. I'm still going to go home and give my Mrs a kiss, give my kids a cuddle.

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

When I'm in the kitchen, I don't want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system - and the system, it's another form of insanity that has grabbed me.

Women should let go their responsibilities of kitchen and should take coaching classes of how to give pleasure.

I think I am very fortunate to have my sister, who is always there to guide me and my food and lodging has been taken care of. Since my basic need of life is secure, when it comes to working, I never appeared like a desperate struggler who needs the job to run the kitchen.

I've never bent the knee to anyone in my life.

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.

I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.