Rebellious Quotations

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!

I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I'm very touched by kids who don't have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: / Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; / And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

He was real rebellious the first half of the season. He didn't want to listen to us. He had his own game plan. Then we'd get back and break down videos and ask him, 'Is this you, or is this somebody else?' He really matured in January. I think he finally got tired of us beating on him.

WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

Walking my dog on the streets of downtown Fayetteville... contemplating, anticipating and daydreaming of what holds in tomorrow's promise... I look up above for some sort of comfort... and just in that moment, a rebellious star transcends a fiery streak in the night sky and that's the moment I know every little thing will be alright.

were these two rebellious band members, and we would write nice little tunes, but sentimental stuff.

We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n' roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock n' roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know?

The shooters had mistaken me for someone else. I entered a total rebellious phase. It completely changed me.

People ask me why I'm so rebellious. Well, I don't think I'm being a rebel. People perceive that being rebellious is a bad thing, but if fighting for what I believe in is being rebellious, I am a rebel. But I think you are the rebels; you're the ones rebelling against the peace, love, and unity I am trying to promote. I think you are rebelling against mankind. You racist, You anti-life war-makers. I believe you are rebelling against the human race.

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

They've been taught since childhood to be more docile while boys tend to be more rebellious and rambunctious. We're always wanting to make people happy.

The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members

I knew I wanted to make a movie about Johnny Cash since '96, but my first exposure to Cash was the live Folsom Prison album on my dad's shelf, ... I saw Cash's incredibly ravaged face with a rivulet of sweat running down his cheek on the cover. And when I listened to it, I heard all these men cheering - guys in prison. He's singing about murder and they're all cheering. There's such an incredibly rebellious attitude in that material and such danger that even as a kid it stood out to me.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

I was a rebellious kid, always getting into trouble.

The two women positively enjoy punishing the portly knight for his audacity as they deal with an insanely jealous husband, a rebellious daughter, a warlike French doctor, a nosy Welch clergyman and all the other denizens of their Windsor community.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

I was very rebellious.

It's kind of rebellious to be yourself,

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

I want to be a rebellious McDonald's owner. Cheeseburgers... NOPE... we got spaghetti!