Quotes About Independence

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

I'm a bad girl — I read past my bedtime.

When others, a man begins to blame He'll soon find himself alone, The same.

I'm quitting to pursue my dream of not working here.

In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.

I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians, and Caesarians.

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.

Do not fear a life without the presence of those who gave up on you. Instead, fear a life where you have abandoned yourself.

We must be our own, before we can be another's.

He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity.

Ich will doch sehen, wer mich hält, - wer mich zwingt, - wer der Mensch ist, der einen Menschen zwingen kann.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Diamonds may have been a girl's best friend in an era when a woman's only hope of having a high family income was to marry a man who was well-off, but today, marketable skills that will enable a woman to command a good income over her lifetime are a better investment.

Taiwan was part of China.

only you really know yourself and only you can really make your decisions.

Give us liberty or give us death!

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

Was it just that the right man hadn't come along? Or did I simply not want to get married? The truth was probably a combination of the two. I hadn't yet met a man who interested me for any extended period of time, nor had I met one who seemed to offer a life that could be any more enjoyable than the one I was leading on my own. The problem was that married life seemed to me likely to be a lot less enjoyable than the one I'd built for myself.

Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work.

Retirou-se. A humilhação atenuou-se pouco a pouco e morreu. Precisava entrar em casa, jantar, dormir. E precisava crescer, ficar tão grande como Fabiano, matar cabras a mão de pilão, trazer uma faca de ponta à cintura. Ia crescer, espichar-se numa cama de varas, fumar cigarros de palha, calçar sapatos de couro cru.