Quotes About Independence

Peace had failed her and Ashley had failed her, both in the same day, and it was as if the last crevice in the shell had been sealed, the final layer hardened. She had become what Grandma Fontaine had counseled against, a woman who had seen the worst and so had nothing else to fear. Not life nor Mother nor loss of love nor public opinion. Only hunger and her nightmare dream of hunger could make her afraid.

Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.

I'm not fragile, " I teased and kissed him harder. I supposed my bruise would say otherwise, but I didn't want to be treated like I was going to shatter if someone touched me.

If Liana wanted to fight over Harlow, she was going to lose. Not that I liked him that way. That was to say, I wasn't sure how I felt about Harlow, but it damned sure wasn't up to her to tell me.

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she'd never thought of, to show her new points of view.

I'm really too young to go out into the world alone, " he thought as he lay down

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

At times like this, I'm thankful I don't feel love.

This Thanksgiving, Americans are especially thankful for our freedom, and we are especially thankful to you, those who keep us free.