Quotes About Independence

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.

I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

At my age, I don't need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.