Quotes About Rebellion

Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea - and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!

I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

I remember talking about a Mozart song during a music class at school, and I said, 'I wouldn't have done it like that.' I didn't like the way the chords moved. And my teacher told me to get out.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.

Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio. I tried to be the class clown, so I spent a lot of time in detention.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

There's no winning for us. We're screwed. We were born into a system we don't agree with, and we got caught. Here, out there, it doesn't matter. There's nothing left for us.

Why did you come here?" he asked at last "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here." If I was going to die, I was going to go in true Rose style

It goes against every rule in the universe.' To my surprise, she touched the small gold cross around her neck. 'Some rules are bigger than the universe.

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed to him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?" Mead, Richelle (2010-05-18). Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 478). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Headmistress. Whatever. She's still a self-righteous old bit—

Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

It was the indispensable institution, led by the indispensable man, and the coupling of a national army with its commander marked the transformation of a rebellion into a revolution. "Confusion and discord reigned in every department," Washington wrote in late July. "However we mend every day, and I flatter myself that in a little time we shall work up these raw materials into good stuff.

Merde pour la guerre"—Shit on the war.

Here, then, was the crux. The king and his men believed that British wealth and status derived from the colonies. The erosion of authority in America, followed by a loss of sovereignty, would encourage rebellions in Canada, Ireland, the Caribbean, India. Dominoes would topple. "Destruction must follow disunion," the colonial secretary, Lord Dartmouth, warned.