Quotes About Independence

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

Do you mind if I don't smoke?

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

The internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!

My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him.

They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.

David McCullough, John Adams