Quotes About Independence

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

Gravity": "It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.