Stand On My Own Two Feet Quotes

#1. From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet.

Jay Kay

#2. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

Jay Kay

#3. Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

Chris Froome

#4. I'm not scared anymore. I will not let her terrify me. Or keep me on my knees. I'm yours, fully and unconditionally. For however long we get, I will stand on my own two feet. By your side.

Elle Aycart

#5. If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

Erich Fromm

#6. NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

Henrik Ibsen

#7. I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.

Emilia Fox

#8. The world I held so closely, she played me like a game,
I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet.

Coco J. Ginger

#9. I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

Ross Kemp

#10. She'd stand on her own two feet if she had to crawl.

Patricia McLinn

#11. Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.

Edwina Currie

#12. You gotta stand up and walk, Gem," he said quietly, turning his back on them. "You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet."
So I did.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

Charlie Hunnam

#14. Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.

Sue Monk Kidd

#15. Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.

James Shikwati

#16. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

Laozi

#17. My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

Ron Reagan

#18. See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.

Paul Palnik

#19. Personal power is the ability to stand on your own two feet with a smile on your face in the middle of a universe that contains a million ways to crush you.

J.Z. Colby

#20. So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

William Adams

#21. Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.'

Marc Guggenheim

#22. You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#23. I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.

Diana Ross

#24. When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

Damien Hirst

#25. I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.

Eddie Huang

#26. It's okay to stand on your own two feet and to be different, to be yourself.

Jared Leto

#27. You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.

Josh Mandel

#28. I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others.

Francis Chan

#29. The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Shunryu Suzuki

#30. First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Kristin Hunter

#31. For several seconds, they stand there, ... just four feet apart now, but separated by a thick granite counter, by fifty years and two fully lived lives. No one speaks. No one breathes.

Jess Walter

#32. There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

Banana Yoshimoto

#33. Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Ezra Taft Benson

#34. Questions, Hypothetical: Needn't be answered. No one knows why.
Schools, Public: They teach you to stand on your own two feet. 'No doors on the lavatories. That sorts the men from the boys'.
Snobbery, Inverted: The worst kind. No need to explain why.

William Donaldson

#35. When she realizes that they are about to fall, she summons the strength to stand on her own two feet. Because that is what women like Britt-Marie do. They find the strength when they have to do something for others.

Fredrik Backman

#36. When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.

Sunny Leone

#37. With my heart thumping, I froze up. I didn't dance. I was born with two left feet and they only worked together in the saddle. "Come on," Casey urged and grabbed my hand. "I wore my steel-toe boots. You can stand on my feet for all I care.

Brittney Joy

#38. If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

Joel Salatin

#39. I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet.

Keely Barton