Quotes About Independence

To be able to choose your own pain - it's a little scary, she thought, but it's wonderful, too.

Poder elegir tu propio dolor; da un poco de miedo, pensó, pero también es maravilloso.

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion" – Soren Kierkegaard

though. Here, besides books like Langer's Grow It!, Livingston's Guide to Edible Plants and Animals, Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living and of course Seymour's Forgotten Arts and Crafts—their

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

From birds she learned how to sing; from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence.

I, too, have ropes around my neck. I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. I buck, I snort, I whinny, I rear, Ikick. Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Doyou hear? I refuse to choose.

Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.

Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpot… I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied that I— even I—had dreamed.

In the end, everyone can do without fathers

Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.

On December 15th, 1971, Tiger Niazi surrendered to Sam Manekshaw;

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished,' Czes?aw Mi?osz once said.)

In his thirteenth year he was old enough to play on the rocks at Scandal Point without having to be watched over by his ayah, Kasturba.

It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state.

Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpots … I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied than I—even I—had dreamed.

Deha zenginlerin kölesi deÄŸildir.

And all the time she held on to me; like a mother protecting her child, she shielded me from my family. (Who were learning … as I was … that they were not …)

orphans know that their survival requires them to be prepared to do whatever is necessary. That there are no limits.

Eventually, the photographer had tried to catch her unawares, but she seized his camera and broke it over his skull. Fortunately, he lived; but there are no photographs of my grandmother anywhere on the earth. She was not one to be trapped in anyone's little black box. It was enough for her that she must live in unveiled, barefaced shamelessness—there was no question of allowing the fact to be recorded.

because a nation which had never previously existed was about to win its freedom, catapulting us into a world which, although it had five thousand years of history, although it had invented the game of chess and traded with Middle Kingdom Egypt, was nevertheless quite imaginary;

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. - Notebook, 1894