Quotes About Independence

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

There was definitely a time where I kind of did rebel a little bit, but it was not until I had graduated college.

I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really stirred you up and made you want to rebel.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.

I really rebel against authority.

I was always the headstrong child in the family. My mother and father called me a rebel at 2 years old. But they always accepted me as an individual.

I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.

I wasn't a rebel.

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.

I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.

I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!