Top 80 Rebellious Quotes

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

I was only a village doctor with a rebellious streak.

And I think that’s why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn’t want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

It’s embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I’m glad I did.

My job in ‘Motive’ is to be the rebellious teenager – what boy wouldn’t want to be that?

We’ll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we’re going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical styles, be creative, and just have fun with it.

I don’t think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don’t believe in people – what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don’t listen to anyone, never.

Kids need to encounter kids like themselves – kids who can sometimes be crabby and fresh and rebellious, kids who talk back and disobey, tell fibs and get into trouble, and are nonetheless still likable and redeemable.

I was never consciously rebellious but I suppose comedy is a sort of act of rebellion isnt it? Coming from a quite liberal background, it never occurred to me that there was anything to rebel against because you were allowed to say what you wanted to say.

It’s liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I’m supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It’s not a rebellious thing.

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It’s always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It’s edgy to be a little rebellious.

I was born to two rebellious people and it is in my blood to speak my mind.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

‘Holes’ was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it’s being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would’ve loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

I think hip hop is a dance music that’s rebellious by nature.

I think what’s universal about the story of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is every one has grown up and done something that was rebellious against their parents’ wishes, be it love or something else.

And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

I was a little rebellious growing up.

I went to a Catholic high school, and I was super rebellious. I would dress weird or play jazz. I was definitely pushing against whatever was going on.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the ’60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

I’ve kind of got a rebellious bone. I think I came out of the womb like that.

I am a rebellious North Indian girl and I was not sure if I would have said yes to a film like ‘Rajma Chawal’ if it would not be from South as it allows me to challenge myself.

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.

Hip-hop – it’s the safari: it allows people who aren’t under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It’s something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious.

It’s sometimes said that I’m rebellious and I do things to push people’s buttons, but I just like the challenge.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

If there’s anything I think that you’ve seen about me, it’s that I’m the rebellious girl.

One of the first major storylines that ‘All My Children’ featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

I was a dozy boy; I’d like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey – pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she’s mean.

‘The Catcher in the Rye’ was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.

I was very rebellious.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

As a teenager I was quite conventional in the way I dressed, more so than now. I tried to be rebellious but I was really lame at it.

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.

I was rebellious.

Everything I do is rebellious. Sometimes even against myself.

Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn’t a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because they were rebellious towards us; a lot of their gatekeepers said grime was too violent.

Style to me is a mix between rock star chic-quirky-sexy and expressive. I always dress for my body type, as it’s important to highlight your pluses! I like edgy clothes that have character. I usually dress by the mood I’m in – so if I’m in my ripped jeans and leather jacket, you know I’m feeling rebellious!

Punk music is rebellious.

I do have a rebellious spirit.

I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So then I got my birthday money up, and I bought my own. It was the most rebellious thing I’ve ever done.

Booze’ was once a popular term in the slang or ‘cant’ of the criminal underworld, which may explain its rebellious overtones today.

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it’s difficult to top them. So what’s the point?

I’m not really rebellious. People think I am, but I’m not.

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn’t have.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn’t a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom, and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits. I was the type of person that would show a Powerpoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

The music I listened to as a kid – the Stones, the Beatles – that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

At home and in church – which I didn’t go to a lot, I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians – they would ask us, ‘What’s the shortest verse in the Bible?’ and I was the one who always said ‘John 11:35’ straightaway. It stayed with me: the Bible has stayed with me.