Quotes About Independence

I left England when I was 19 for two years travelling on my own and since then I've always had an urge to go abroad.

I have no urge to go back to college.

I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.

I loved creating a series about the four Cabot sisters, who were not content to let their destinies be dictated to them. In 'The Trouble With Honor,' this desire became especially urgent when the sisters were faced with the prospect of losing their place in society. Eldest sister Honor led the charge. They were undaunted!

I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

If you believe something needs to exist, if it's something you want to use yourself, don't let anyone ever stop you from doing it.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

Oliver Reed was a great man who did things his own way. He used to come into Harveys, my restaurant in Wandsworth, and sit on the floor to have a drink before going to the table.

If I used to say that Indonesia would be free when the corn ripens, I can now say that Indonesia will be free before it blossoms.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly set up to be used against us.