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Quotes About Rebellion

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
~ Xavier Dolan
I used to love the '20s.
~ David Bailey
If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
~ Ian Anderson
The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented being forced to recite the Apostle's Creed, mumbling, 'I believe... ' when I didn't.
~ Lionel Shriver
Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
I was always being told to calm down, to chill out, to slow down. I was a bad toddler, I was a bad child, I was a bad teenager.
~ Michelle Zauner
If you give Chip a boundary, he's going to break that boundary. If you give him a rule, he's not going to follow it. And if you tell him, 'You can't go over this line,' he's going to put his toe over it.
~ Joanna Gaines
I don't toe the party line all the time.
~ Tan Cheng Bock
I was not supposed to talk in front of males and had to wear only full clothes, totally covered from head to toe. All these thoughts made me a rebel. I became a rebel because I was suppressed a lot and was not allowed anything except for education.
~ Urfi Javed
We never want to toe the line.
~ Lisa Stansfield
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
~ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.
~ Ernst Toller
It's true - my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don't even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn't tolerate that, as she shouldn't from a 14-year-old.
~ Michael Che
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
~ Klaus Kinski
I've had a righteous streak since as long as I can remember. I never tolerated bullying from kids or authority, no matter the case. I got into trouble for calling things how I saw it in my early years at Catholic school, but I couldn't help myself.
~ Tara Stiles
She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.
~ Sarah Dunant
Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this.
~ Sarah Kane
As a child I liked to piss on the carpet. The carpet rotted and I blamed it on the dog.
~ Sarah Kane
I have reached the end of this dreary and repugnant tale of a sense interned in an alien carcass and lumpen by the malignant spirit of the moral majority...
~ Sarah Kane
Then think of the work the rebels had to tear it down! They had no Powers." "Just the power of hatred and anger," said Cerf. "Which we've learned is pretty fuckin' strong.
~ Sarah Kozloff
You put a guy who wants to control everything in the same room with a guy who'd rather wlak into a bonfire than listen when somebody tells him not to, and it's your own damn fault if you're surprised when things get ugly.
~ Sarah Monette
You put a guy who wants to control everything in the same room with a guy who'd rather walk into a bonfire than listen when somebody tells him not to, and it's your own damn fault if you're surprised when things get ugly.
~ Sarah Monette
I love you, Taylor Carmichael Corretti. I love you for better and for worse—preferably worse, by the way." His eyes glittered into hers. "I love a bad girl. Think about it—if I marry you we can spend the rest of our lives shocking people.
~ Sarah Morgan