Quotes About Independence

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

All too frequently we relate like timid birds who don't dare to leave the nest.

and believe me, Mrs. Green, she'll be pegging out her own washing until the day she dies.

But the point was to be carefree, independent. Artists can't be hampered by the dailiness of ordinary life--Tony felt strongly about that. Doing the same things every day, forever bothered about money. Art has to be freed from all that.

When we are married - and we will be married, I know we will, I see the long years of our marriage ahead like a great spacious welcoming firelit room - when we are married we shall have a house in London because I want to show you off. I want to wave you around in pride. We'll have that - but we'll also have Porlock, or somewhere like Porlock because we're going to want to be alone, and work, and shut the door on people...

Não há amor resistente à solidão.

Stenditi al sole. Abdica, e sii il re di te stesso.

Those who wander are always objects of suspicion and sometimes even of fear.

Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.

Your morals are your own affair, mum. As are my own.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

The top man who concludes that his company needs to grow but who also then realizes that he does not want to change himself and his behavior has, in conscience, only one line of action open to him. He has to step aside. Even if he legally owns the company, he does not own the lives of other people. A company is not a child—and even with a human child, the time comes when the parent has to accept that the child has grown up and needs to be independent and on his own.

The Enlightenment may be summoned up in two words: criticism and power.

The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence.

In 1980, at independence, a man might expect to live to sixty and to see his children grow up strong and have children of their own, and if he was fortunate, a man might even live to see his great-grandchildren bring him gourds of beer before he died. But life expectancy dropped to fifty, and now it has collapsed, all the way down to thirty-three. It is hard to comprehend. At thirty-three, just as people should be in their prime, they suddenly sicken and die.

Teach us to demand our share of the gold, And forgive us our docility.