Quotes About Independence

College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.