Quotes About Independence

I'd love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn't bother me to be as alone as a tree on the plains. My leaves would be like no other tree's.

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

Bolívar resumió el desengaño en una frase: "Hemos ganado la independencia a costa de perder todo lo demás".

Las Leyes de Reforma de 1856 fueron el clímax jurídico del triunfo de aquella cúpula modernizante sobre la sociedad real. Pero la ofensiva ilustrada había cruzado todo el siglo XIX, aun antes de la Independencia, bajo el signo del pensamiento de Melchor de Jovellanos.

Lo exótico en el México independiente no era el monarquismo, sino la república.

I would like so much to be the freest of free women: so free that I would even be liberated from the painful sensation of being liberated. I would like to be so freely free that I would never even think to say to myself: "How free I am!

Everyone knows that a place exists which is not economically or politically indebted to all the vileness and compromise. That is not obliged to reproduce the system. That is writing. If there is a somewhere else that can escape the infernal repetition, it lies in that direction, where it writes itself, where it dreams, where it invents new worlds.

He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round-table discussions and giving everybody a fair and equal chance to foul things up for him. You know as well as I do that that's undemocratic.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Go away...I'm alright.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

as long as a man can pay 'is way, he's got enough.

There wasn't much of her, in fact she must have been one of the smallest women I have ever seen—around five feet high—but there was a core of steel in her. She had her own mind and her own way of doing things.

onto a heap, making a churned brown trail across the whiteness. 'Now then,' he muttered along the side of a half-smoked cigarette. He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed. He told me once that he had worked as a farm hand for six shillings a day for thirty years, yet still managed

Cuando todo el mundo sigue por un camino, yo cojo el otro.

I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, so let me live my life the way I want to.

If you look deep enough into yourself." And dare to dig deep enough, you will find that you are a complete whether there is someone in your life or not.

If you look deep enough into yourself." And dare to dig deep enough, you will find that you are complete whether there is someone in your life or not.

Life is choice. All day, every day. Because no matter what they say, you always have a choice. You just don't always have the guts to make it." "I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made.

If standing up for yourself burns a bridge. I have matches. We ride at dawn.

You are not defined by other people's opinion of who you should be or what you should do as a person. You determine that, not anyone else.

Know who you are. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. You have to know who you are. No one else can give you that.

I can be myself and not worry about what they will think. Because I love me for who I am.