Vaclav Havel Quotes

Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

The movement from slavery to freedom is also a movement from security to insecurity of maintenance.

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

It was good to get out of prison and home to the family.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side...

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison.

So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.