Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.