Paula Creamer Quotes

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.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I don't need adult supervision.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

To be adult is to be alone.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

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

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

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.

I think I am an adult.

Grown men do not need leaders.

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.

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

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.