Quotes about Independence
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
- Jack Kerouac
A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
- Dolly Parton
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
- Joseph Heller
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
- George Washington
It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
- Joel Osteen
I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.
- Alice Hoffman
But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.
- Alice Hoffman
But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.
- Alice Hoffman
truth, she didn't care for rules of any sort; rules made little sense to a person who had grown up in a world without compassion or pity, where there was no moral code by which to abide.
- Alice Hoffman
You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance
- Alice Hoffman
I'd thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people's opinions rule my life. As a girl I'd done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer.
- Alice Hoffman
I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.
- Alice Hoffman