Quotes About Independence

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

you, Aunt Helga? Are you in hell?" Helga appeared to consider the question seriously, but when her answer came it was with a dismissive gesture. "Oh, no, honey. I'm all right. I'd rather still be at home, but then I'd be completely dependent on people who have their own lives to lead, and that's not very agreeable, either. I don't like it, but I can't say I don't belong here. It's just another thing to make the best of.

Mi papá vive solo en el desierto. Dice que no se lleva bien con la gente.

Give me the keys.

I've been my own man. Ain't nothing richer than that

On the Tier One Teams I studied, the typical pecking order put the coach at the top, the talent on the bottom, and a water-carrying captain in the middle who served as an independent mediator between them. In this new order, where power and popularity went hand in hand, the middle manager's role had been squeezed out. Unless the captain was the superstar, the captain was a bystander.

I always favored the mavericks who challenged my rules. I may have fought them all the way, but I respected them, and, in the end, I listened to them a lot more closely than I did the pack who always agreed with everything I said.

The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable.

A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.

I, too, do not want our children to leave us, Zeba, but it is not our decision to make. We are here only to facilitate their dreams.

What a glorious morning for America!

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

Not a bird, not a plane, a girl - just without a grain of gravity.

a man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

common sense, though she is by nature the gentlest creature living, when she feels the knife at her throat, is apt to develop unexpected powers of resistance, and to send doctrinaires flying, even when they have bound her down and think they have her at their mercy.

Can anyone do much for anyone else unless by making a will in his favour and dying then and there? Should not each look after his own happiness, and will not the world be best carried on if everyone minds his own business and leaves other people to mind theirs?

I don't care," he answered, "whether I make the most of my strength or not; I don't know whether I have any strength, but if I have I dare say it will find some way of exerting itself. I will live as I like living, not as other people would like me to live; thanks to my aunt and you I can afford the luxury of a quiet unobtrusive life of self-indulgence," said

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.