Quotes About Independence

I seek the face of God in the sky and in the waves of the ocean, not in some book or on my knees in some dusty church. "I

I know you don't approve of me or my ways, Ezra, but I got to make my way in this world the best I can. I got to work with what talents I got 'cause ain't nobody gonna look out for me but me. I will play my music, I will sing my songs, I will dance my dances. And sometimes, as I have found in my life, it's easier being a boy. That's the way of it. Till later, Ezra." I

I do consider myself to be a good girl, but I do seem to lose my clothing quite often in certain highly charged circumstances. "So

For a generally peaceable person, Miss Faber does like to go about well armed in the world. As

Never let your future depends of nothing but you. Never let your plans controlled by luck or possibilities. If you hope for a good tomorrow, be you the tomorrow.

This Kitten Has Claws

QUINN; You always look after Number One, don't you? ASH; Doesn't everybody?

Tell Hugh," she whispered. Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.

I am the only one who can decide what will happen to me," Kaitlyn went on very quietly. "No one else. Me. And I've already made my decision. I'm going back to that place and I'm going to try to stop them any way I can. Whether you give me the shard or not is your decision, but I'm going back anyway.

And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out... and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

I am my only master

I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself. Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world. She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself. And that would have to do.

I am as strong as I need to be. I am my only master.

I like being on my own.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were ordinary parts he used to order from Sears, Roebuck. Patton seized upon the remark. When it proved impossible to obtain the parts through regular channels—partly because of the red tape and partly because the Army simply did not have any at that stage—he ordered them from Sears, Roebuck and paid the bill out of his own pocket.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me.