Quotes About Independence

My father felt that children should make their own way.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

The free man is the man with no fears.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

We must dissent from the fear.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

Fear is the passion of slaves.