Quotes About Independence

A bicycle is a friend in a way that an automobile can never be. A car can be a lover: sophisticated, complex, temperamental, but one wrong step and the affair is over. The bicycle is simple, undemanding, faithful, but as with any friendship, you must work at it, maintain it, repair it where necessary, spend time with it, get to know its character.

She loved her dream, because in the midst of the lifeswarm, it was one thing that was hers and hers alone, her dream of flying. Just … flying. Never to, or from, anywhere

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

Freedom is expressing our true spirit 'love'. Independence is sustaining this freedom inspite of all inhibitions.

And you're like a father to me,' Holmes replied, heading for the door. 'The fa-ther I get from you, the easier my life seems to be.

He was in his twenties and lived in a caravan behind the pub, which he shared with his tattoos and facial piercings. 'The room you're in is his by rights,' Collins had explained to Rebus, 'but he'd rather be where he is.

A bitch aint shit without a man's good whip, & 1 monkey wont stop my show.

I moved out of my aunt's house and got my own apartment when I was seventeen. Since I was an orphan, my aunt was getting a Social Security check for $250 every month, and finally I said, "Look, give me the money. You don't want me here anyway—I'm gone.

freedom is not given... it's taken.

A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE Tell me what to do; but it must be what I want you to tell me.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

SOVEREIGNTY Sovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother. Proverb.

Sé un perro, pero no seas un hermano menor.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

Nessuno dovrebbe dire: "Posso fidarmi" o "Non posso fidarmi", finché è padrone dell'opzione di fidarsi o non fidarsi.

Un lema de la raza humana Dime qué debo hacer; pero tiene que ser lo que quiero que me digas.

I advise you to avoid the confused thinking which results from accepting second-hand ideas, and do some thinking for yourself.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

Cloaks are nice. You can wear a cloak and have nothing on under it at all. And you can go anywhere you want like that!