Quotes About Independence

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.