Dennis Prager Quotes

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

I have that wonderful release of growing up and thinking, 'I can do whatever I want. I can prioritise for myself.'

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.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

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

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

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

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.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

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

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.