Top 317 Rebellious Quotes & Sayings

Listen, I'm rebellious. Okay? I always have been.

I was definitely super rebellious, and my music is that.

Most comics are not truly rebellious or creatively free. Most comics, paintings, music, etc., are derivative of other, more successful works. And it's quite often that those without much rebellious spirit are the ones to imitate it. Genuine radical expression is hard to come by, but it usually crops up when money is not a motivating factor. You can take all the liberties you want when someone else's dime is not at stake. The validation is not a threat to comics. A far greater threat to the creative freedom of artists working in any medium is self-consciousness and self-censorship.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

It's kind of rebellious to be yourself.

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've never really been a rebellious teen.

The fifties were pretty rebellious, a pretty rebellious period, around that time. And it was preceding the whole zoot suit thing which I think really contributed to a lot of anxiety, to a lot of frustration, a lot of blaming. And it just like boom, it was very destructive for us as a people, that right away put us on like we had to defend ourselves on every level, every moment. We seemed like we always had to be on guard.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

I was a rebellious kid, always getting into trouble.

I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people. But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I'm always looking for new ways to shake things up. So I feel like I'm really lucky to be alive in a time where there's so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up. It's sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.

I think all kids are rebellious. It's a part of growing up.

I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.

I definitely don't ever plan on compromising, and if that means I'm rebellious, then so be it. I'm all for it.

Punk music is rebellious.

I try to help my mum as much as I can by not being rebellious.

My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

I was rebellious.

I was only a village doctor with a rebellious streak.

Throughout high school, I was fairly boring. I didn't do many rebellious things.

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.

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 quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

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

I do have a rebellious spirit.

I was very rebellious.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

We're skateboarders, we have rebellious ways.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

Everything I do is rebellious. Sometimes even against myself.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

I want to be a rebellious McDonald's owner. Cheeseburgers... NOPE... we got spaghetti!

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

I do have a slightly rebellious streak in me, I'm afraid.

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

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

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

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

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

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

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

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.

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

Why are the people starving?- Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes That's why they're starving Why are people rebellious?- Because those above them meddle in their lives That's why they're rebellious Why do people regard death so lightly?- Because they are so involved with their own living That's why they regard death so lightly In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go

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

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

I was a little rebellious growing up.

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

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself. The equation was simple: If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk. 'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control. It was like songwriting; you just do it. You want a record, you pay the pressing plant. That's what it was all about.'

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

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

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