Top 1200 Independence Day Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

The characteristic that every college football coach should look for in a wife is independence.

It's painful to see that after Independence, India hasn't won a single Olympic medal in athletics.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.

It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

What belongs to our independence and national sovereignty, we will never give up.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

When we made 'Life in a Day,' we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we were cutting that film, we talked about what it might be like if we chose a day that already had significance to people. The result is 'Christmas in a Day.'

Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.

There's a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance.

A full day fast without water is observed on the third main day of Chhath Puja. The main ritual of the day is to offer arghya to the setting Sun. On this day we prepare a prasad of sweets, among which Thekua is pretty popular.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

There were two main points I wanted to get across in Valentine, the first being that yes, Valentine's Day is an arbitrary day, but why would you not take that excuse to celebrate love? The second point. . .since it is just an arbitrary day. . .why not treat every day like Valentine's Day?

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

Galentine's Day is the day before Valentine's Day. People sometimes think, 'Oh, it's a replacement for Valentine's Day.' But it's not. You can celebrate Galentine's and Valentine's. And it comes from the sitcom 'Parks And Recreation'... Amy Poehler's character created this holiday because she wanted a day to celebrate her girlfriends.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

I do abs every day: regular, weighted crunches and sit-ups every other day, then my obliques and my sides on the alternating day. So I'm working my core every day.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

I do abs every day: regular, weighted crunches and sit-ups every other day, then my obliques and my sides on the alternating day. So I’m working my core every day.

Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.