Quotes About Independence

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

Eat your breakfast. We have a train to board." - Daniel "I'm not a child, Captain." - Julianna "Yes. I am very much aware of that fact, thank you." - Daniel

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Okay, listen, I don't know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn't born yesterday so I am gonna go now and leave you to whatever dumb idiot girl is gonna buy that line.

First you have to lose your debts; as long as you're in debt, you're not free," he explained. "Then you have to get some breathing space so you can go in a new direction, but above all you need to know what you want from life.

Die meisten Menschen sind es ja nicht gewöhnt, sich wirklich selber ein Urteil zu bilden; es reicht ihnen vollkommen, wenn sie das von sich glauben können, während sie in Wirklichkeit Gedanken nachplappern, die sie irgendwo aufgeschnappt haben.

It seems to me, dear sister, that you still think the important thing is to become like everybody else. In reality, the important thing is to become different from the others, to discover your uniqueness. You're a rebel by birth, but that doesn't mean much. Your own rebellion is still ahead of you.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

But regardless, Mr. Meinert looked forward to Wednesday night the way a parent looks forward to seeing a child take those first few steps alone — alone, but not really.

she would often remind herself that her thoughts were free no matter how oppressive her life might sometimes feel.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

Typee was Melville's version of this American dream—not the dream of raising one's status in the world as it is, but the dream of starting over, getting out from under, and putting it all away to discover life anew. 6.

Britain's industry was kept buoyant by the decline of Empire, for as countries gained their independence they sought arms to enhance their status and security. From 1945 to 1955, Britain sold arms worth over $2bn to private traders and $1.7bn to foreign governments, excluding warships.42

As compelling as it may be to try and convince our friends to stop investing in that 'bubble' real estate market, or get your parents to move overseas with you, they have to make the decision on their own.

All that I can claim is that my deliberate policy of leaving him largely to his own devices and standing by to assist when necessary, allowed his natural mathematical genius to progress uninhibited …

The point lay not in this or that label, but in the fact that this generation were going to think for themselves, take a wider view of the world than their parents had done, and not be frightened by bogey words.

Florida was where they lived, where I kept coming back, though nobody asked me questions anymore about what I was doing. One day, when I was sitting in the back seat of the car as we were waiting for a railroad train to go by on our way to the mall, my mother turned back to me and said, apropos of something I forget, "You are a separate person, you know," but I felt I wasn't. I couldn't get away from them, which is why I kept coming back to Florida.

Kids don't want stand-ins on parents' weekend, no matter how much they might love those stand-ins. They don't want stand-ins to talk to about their teachers and their upcoming history final and the latest computer program idea they've come up with.

I was 18 and had taken A-levels in Woking where I grew up. But I didn't want to go to university so left sixth-form college. My father was in the building industry and he found me a job stripping concrete panels off buildings. It was dangerous work on high scaffolds, sometimes 12 hours a day, Monday to Friday, and often weekends too.