Quotes About Being Tied Down

#1. If We Are The Guardian Of The Flame Of Humanity ... Then We Must Care For All Of It's Children. For In It's Spirit ... They Are All Sacred!

Timothy Pina

#2. He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down
and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.

Pope John Paul II

#4. In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#5. In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

William Levy

#6. Because you see, when you're a strong person, people often look to you to take care of them. People look to you for help. People look to you for strength.
And when your life spins out of control, it's as if their lives are tied to your own and will come crashing down with yours.

Nessie Q.

#7. I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.

Robert Barry

#8. I got everybody on my side through comedy.

Ruth Buzzi

#9. I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

Mick Jagger

#10. [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

Alec Baldwin

#11. Some men just don't cotton to the notion of being tied down to one woman

Julie Garwood

#12. Why would anyone wish to be provincial in time, any more than being tied down to one place through life, when the whole reach of the human drama is there to experience in some of the greatest books ever written.

David McCullough

#13. She comes with horns not the moon
And tail not the comet

Cesar Ruiz Aquino

#14. Security was a mirage; being
tied down hardly counted when the other end of the rope had unraveled.

Jodi Picoult

#15. I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.

Carey Mulligan

#16. The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

A.E. Van Vogt

#17. In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

Maria Semple