"But you have to stand on your own two feet."

I thought he was supposed to be making you stand on your own two feet?

I'm going to teach you to stand on your own two feet and make it in this world."

"I need you to stand on your own two feet now," he said as he pulled her up from the bathroom floor.

"It means, Prissy, that you still haven't learned to stand on your own two feet.

This, too, is one of Swift's ways of making sure you stand on your own two feet while reading this book.

It's hard enough standing on your own two feet, but when you also have to remain true to your character and soul, it's harder still.

By contrast, he said in a recent interview, his party is "saying that security is the ability to work and to stand on your own two feet."

Stand on your own two feet, O'Malley.

Still, a good dose of Big Society and standing on your own two feet will do people the power of good...

The plan is for you to start believing you can stand on your own two feet - that ought to be plan enough for anyone.'

She ended that letter with, "If I never learn anything else here, I'll learn what it is like to stand on your own two feet. "

"In functional fitness, most of the time, you should be standing on your own two feet and supporting your own weight when you lift anything."

You are, in fact, taking precisely the attitude the coalition government applauds: you're eager to stand on your own two feet rather than depending on the state.

"Maggie, I know you want to stand on your own two feet, and you will soon, I promise But right now, you're not strong enough to work."

gotta say to her and now you gotta stand on your own two feet everything we do you keep changing so

Here is what I learned, though: when the rug is pulled out from under you emotionally, it isn't necessarily an advantage to be standing on your own two feet.

To her the song is about realizing that you are better off moving on from a lost relationship, letting go of what you don't need and standing on your own two feet.

He also wanted you to gain some independence and learn you could stand on your own two feet rather than move from living with your parents to living with a husband."

You can still maintain emotional ties to them, but it's time for you and your new husband to stretch your proverbial wings and learn to stand on your own two feet.

"Good thing you can stand on your own two feet, you," muttered Nanny to Elphaba, and put her old hand patronizingly on Elphaba's shoulder blades, but Elphaba shrugged it away.

Carmen Vigezzi, who teaches fencing at the Hartford Y.M.C.A., added: "If you're a person who doesn't like to stand on your own two feet and think your way out of a problem, you won't like fencing."

At some stage one has to reach the point in life where you're capable of standing on your own two feet without the state as a crutch, and if you fail to attain that level of self-sufficiency there's only so much you can expect by way of support.