Quotes About Rebellion

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.

My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it.

I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.

I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.

I was always a punk rock skate kid from a very young age.

I never counted how many tattoos I have, but I started getting them at a really young age, so most of my big ones are cover-ups.

I always wanted to get piercings and tattoos done from a young age.

When I thought of Christine at first, I was really angry with everything that was given to me as a young girl.

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy.

As a young guy, you don't like listening to adults and older people. You think they're just old and don't know what they're talking about.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

I was a troubled young kid, and I would try to break every rule.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that listened to that kind of music. Just by chance, I was in detention, and one of the guys in the class was Van Conner... I started talking to him and found out that we listened to some of the same music.

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

We try to stay on the edge of the mainstream and look at what the most aggressive young kids are running toward.

If I did one thing, I made cooking rock n' roll: I made it sexy. I made young kids from rich backgrounds want to come into my world.

It's wonderful to see a young lady headbutt somebody and kick somebody's face.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

You don't understand what you're angry about as a young man. You have those young man blues.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.