Quotes About Independence

Moliwda knows that despite appearances, it is a happy marriage. Meaning: They each do their own thing.

To be foreign is to be free. To have a great expanse stretch out before you—the desert, the steppe. To have the shape of the moon behind you like a cradle, the deafening symphony of the cicadas, the air's fragrance of melon peel, the rustle of the scarab beetle when, come evening, the sky turns red, and it ventures out onto the sand to hunt. To have your own history, not for everyone, just your own history written in the tracks you leave behind.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading

It's a tendency to be sybaritic, to live in a state of mild semiconsciousness, to fritter your life away on petty pleasures, to dislike effort and be devoid of any penchant for competition. Long mornings, unopened letters, things put off for later, abandoned projects. A dislike of any authority and a refusal to submit to it, going your own way in a taciturn, idle manner. You could say such people are of no use at all.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks," Dizzy sermonized with contagious certainty.

I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.

But how could he have, when women themselves had suddenly gone insane, were rejecting the direction, the protection, that their menfolk offered them, were recklessly plunging off on their own into unknown and unspeakable depths?

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Together they owned the large, flamboyant Doctor Beltado. They might ignore him, they might even despise him, but no one else was going to get him.

was no mean achievement to have given a Bill of Rights to a country that, until then, had never known any kind of freedom.

Lafayette never grew up.

In a world where liberty is in very short supply, there are worse heroes than a man who never stopped worshiping freedom.

Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their sovereign states, not of the nation, and La Fayette was perhaps the only real American:

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

Now he had nothing, or he had his freedom. It depended on how he looked at it, he supposed.

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.