Quotes About Independence

My mother wanted my sister and me to live a normal life. I always picked friends who weren't impressed with my family ties.

Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.

I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

I try to avoid political ties.

I wish that young people, most of all, would learn to cut ties with those who make them feel bad about themselves or about the other people they love and care for.

I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.

I personally don't think that blood ties should be something that signifies so much more than anything else. I understand perfectly when somebody leaves their family for good.

I am talking as an Indian and not as as a cricketer. I believe we should not have any ties or relationship with Pakistan. For me, it is very important to protect our people.

I like to be a tiger roaming the jungle or an eagle soaring the skies.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

I was someone who was trying to make it into the world of glamour. On the other hand, Tiger has also been an athlete and a sports person. He is making his own choices instead of being under my shadow.

Brexit was meant to be about taking back control, we are ceding control; it was meant to be about trade deals, we are not going to have any meaningful trade deals; it was meant to be about having a turbo-charged tiger economy on the edge of Europe, we are going to be bound by the common rule book that we won't have a hand in shaping.

My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.

I run a tight ship. The kids are responsible for their own chores. Each morning they unload the dishwasher from the night before then collect eggs from our chickens, and I cook those while they get ready for school.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.

Also, it is futile to hold on very tight to your man as this will just kill your love for each other.

Mum was a disciplinarian. Raising a child on your own forces you to have to keep the boundaries tight.

We knew we were tight and good, but we didn't know we were going to be the band to help each generation cut its umbilical cord.

I don't have a mortgage or kids, so I can lie low and tighten my belt if I need to.

the fires of a nation about to be born, she went out in the fiery blaze of a nation at war with itself.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

True self-determination—as refugees and prisoners show us every day—is the freedom to hold one's own ideas, to live, however confined, in a spacious mind.