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Quotes About Independence

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.
~ George W. Bush
The only object of liberty is life.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.
~ Glenn Beck
The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.
~ Glenn Beck
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.
~ Greg Behrendt
You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.
~ Hannu Rajaniemi
Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.
~ Heather Brewer
You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.
~ Helena Christensen
I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
~ Henry Rollins
My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
~ Hillary Clinton
I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.
~ J. K. Rowling
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I never worked in an office in my life.
~ Jack Vance
In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.
~ James Frey
My kids are not interested in anything I do. And I mean that not in any dis to my children or dis to me. My kids have their own life, they could give a sh*t what I do.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.
~ Jason Mraz
Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.
~ Jerry Robinson
No one gets to tell you what your life means!
~ Jess Walter
Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.
~ Jesse Ventura
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Good friends and great pets. Key to a good life!!! Who says you have to be paired up with a partner?
~ Jillian Barberie
My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.
~ Jim Hamilton
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
~ Jimmy Connors