Sandra Bullock Quotes

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free.

I want to do what I want to do, when I want to do it.

I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.