Cilla Black Quotes

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

Tell the people not to depend on me anymore.

I don't like being dependent on other people.

I don't like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that's the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I try to be as independent as possible.

I've taken care of myself all my life.

I have always told my daughters not to be dependent on anyone in any capacity.

I don't want to try to piggyback off of anybody else.

People naturally despise a dependant.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head.

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

I have always been independent.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.