Quotes About Independence

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

We don't need more 'What if the mother is going to die' debated, we need 'I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.