Quotes About Independence

I was never meant to sit at home.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

I've never really socialized, I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

I'm quite good at going away from home. I don't live with my parents or anything. But it is tough when you're so far away from everyone.

Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

Things at home didn't change much. I still have to clean my own room!

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.

I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free.

My job is my own only land.

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.