Quotes about Independence

It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly.

Five hundred miles considering how many it took me to come to my senses. When he said he did not want to go to the dance last night, I knew what he meant was he did not want to go to the dance with me. I said that was fine by me and went anyway. There is little enough fun on the trail without giving up what Opportunity comes along because a man is

But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

Ve?ina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalaženje slobode u sebi.

Woman is thy field; go then to thy field and till it.

Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.

I think the best possible social program is a job

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.