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Quotes About Rebellion

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.
~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz
My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
~ Miranda Cosgrove
In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.
~ Philip K. Dick
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
~ Paul O'Grady
I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.
~ Alyssa Milano
When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
~ Anna Sui
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!
~ Anne Rice
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.
~ Arlo Guthrie
Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.
~ Billy Lawrence
I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.
~ Blake Judd
The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.
~ Brock Yates
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
~ Christina Stead
My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.
~ Clemence Poesy
He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).
~ David Levithan
I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.
~ Diane Cilento
By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.
~ Robbie Robertson
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
~ Robert Redford
You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.
~ Rod Coronado
Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.
~ Ron Paul
I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.
~ Sarah Dessen
I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.
~ Simon Jordan
Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.
~ Simone Elkeles
I don't buy into the idea that you're not supposed to rock & roll after a certain date. Maybe I should be in Bellevue, but I'm just having a good time.
~ Steven Tyler