Quotes About Independence

at him. No sir!

Sometimes spending a lot of time together can end a romance faster than anything else

If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "then I haven't missed anything.

And tell Denise I'll come and get her when her phone call comes through." I still didn't go. Because all of a sudden I had the greatest idea of how to show the Tarrytown kids that I was an expert at something besides bandaging legs. "We had a class newspaper last year," I told

don't you scrub up and have your dinner, and then you can decide where to go," Mom said. I didn't want to admit that I was hungry, but I was. And

Miri liked to think of her as Corinne. She liked thinking of all the adults in her life by their first names. It made them seem more interesting, less like parents and more like regular people with stories of their own

The next day, when I got up, Fudge's bed was empty. He doesn't know you're supposed to sleep late when

For the rest of her life, every lovers' quarrel would remind Vix of this night, this night when anger crackled in the air. She vowed then and there no guy would ever make her feel that bad.

When women's lib hit the headlines many of these second-generation ranch women sniffed around its edges and pitched it back like a dead carp. If equality meant doing a man's work, you could have it. That brand of equality had dug their mothers an early grave and was three feet down on their own. They'd come a long way baby, and were on the road back to being real ladies -- or so it appeared.

your opinion of me is none of my business.

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July Fourth, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism."–ERMA BOMBECK

In the retreat to a heterosexist conception of black identity, the jargon of racial authenticity does not repudiate but instead reveals its reliance on the white supremacist logic from which it purports to declare its independence.

Uske apne hi nahi chahte teh uski khusi woh ladki aakhir kehti rahi, Mujhe jaane do

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

No greater good can come to any man or woman than to become self-active. All the experiences of life are designed by Providence to force men and women into self-activity; to compel them to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.

The voyou is the man who escapes everything that normally holds back other men: studies, family, civic duties, religious practices. The voyou is the adventurer of space, of impassable roads, of the immense freedom of cities and fields.

It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Es lässt sich wohl kaum abstreiten… dass die Vorstellung von einem freien, ungebundenen Leben uns seit jeher berauscht und beflügelt hat. In unserer Gedankenwelt verbinden wir damit die Flucht vor der Last der Geschichte, vor Unterdrückung, dem Gesetz und lästigen Verpflichtungen. Wir sehen uns nach der absoluten Freiheit, und der Weg dorthin führte schon immer gen Westen.

The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and they lived by killing--animals as a rule, men if necessary.

but she's as blunt as a splitting maul." She thinks about that, walking again.