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Quotes About Dependency

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
~ Frank Sinatra
Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
~ Morrissey
Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.
~ Noel Gallagher
A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
~ Charles Lamb
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
~ Ivan Pavlov
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
~ George Orwell
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.
~ Gerald May
You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.
~ James Balog
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
~ Pliny the Elder
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
~ Wendell Berry
The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature's Mom.
~ Wes Adamson
Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.
~ Stefan Emunds
Man without his maker is like root without a tender shoot.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence which makes humans creatures of habit
~ Aloysius Jnr
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
~ Henry David Thoreau
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
~ Brennan Manning
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.
~ Bill Crawford
Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.
~ Marvin Minsky
There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
~ Eleanor Mondale
Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.
~ J.R. Ward
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
~ Gerald R. Ford
If there are not mothers, where will men come from and who will feed them?
~ Debasish Mridha
Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas