Quotes About Rebellion

To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.

When I was a boy, my parents would buy me a new toy and I would destroy it. Oh man, I would destroy it. I don't know why I would do such a thing. I was a little rough when I was a little kid.

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

As a child, I loved being outdoors. Our house had a railway track going past it. Of course, Mum told us not to go near it and, of course, we did. There were amazing blackberry bushes growing all along it, and we collected the fruit.

When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.