Quotes About Rebellion

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?

Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.