Quotes About Independence

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

I'm really close to my family, and I really want one of my own. But the wedding, it's not necessary for me.

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

No one can travel your own road for you you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

But the thing with us was, we didn't really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

I'd gone from living alone in New York as a lowly shoe clerk to becoming a shieldmaiden with a family to come home to. It didn't get much better than that.