Rebelled Quotes

#1. The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.

Marge Piercy

#2. My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#3. I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

Natascha McElhone

#4. I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

Lindsay Lohan

#5. That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

Rose Wilder Lane

#6. I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

Patti Smith

#7. This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

John Milton

#8. The things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.

Edith Wharton

#9. Do not marvel brothers if the world hates you, the world rejected and rebelled against God and His truth.

Auliq Ice

#10. I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

Vinnie Jones

#11. What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Mark Knopfler

#12. It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.

Kristin Cashore

#13. My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Anthony Kiedis

#14. I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.

Diane Kruger

#15. I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

Anne Frank

#16. I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Grace Jones

#17. With each film, I get more and more involved and it's more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and people's preconceived ideas. My characters have always stood for something, have always had an opinion, although they've never really rebelled.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#18. Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

George Orwell

#19. ...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]

Sveva Casati Modignani

#20. I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#21. The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen

#22. Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.

Vaclav Havel

#23. I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with, in terms of their values or politics.

Ariel Levy

#24. Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

Pankaj Mishra

#25. Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

Kabir

#26. Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

Martin Freeman

#27. When have I rebelled?"
"When have you ever obeyed?

Shannon McDermott

#28. Yes. She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past. After all, there's a time for everything. You can't sit in the house with the blinds down forever.

Agatha Christie

#29. Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

Malcolm Gladwell

#30. I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Lydia Leonard

#31. I rebelled against the Mormon Church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled against my friends and myself by doing drugs. And I rebelled against everything that was holding me down by playing music with these guys.

Bert McCracken

#32. And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.

Anonymous

#33. Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.

Robert Anderson

#34. Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

Mike Krzyzewski

#35. He rebelled against the highest as if the highest were the lowest - as if the power that could create a heart for bliss, might gloat on its sufferings.

George MacDonald

#36. When their voices didn't reach my ears,
I rebelled against my own skin
too young to realize that without their
stories I would starve.

Kiana Davis

#37. But then, it was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly. A

Kristin Cashore

#38. My stomach rebelled at the thought of more food, but a scoop wouldn't hurt. There was always room for ice cream.

Lola Dodge

#39. I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'

Lili Taylor

#40. Even at an early age, I rebelled against my strict upbringing. When I was 9, I built myself a 'make-out fort' in our backyard from wood, filled it with candy, and invited my blond, blue-eyed neighbor over to kiss.

Azita Ghanizada

#41. I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.

Peter Scolari

#42. Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

Catherine Marshall

#43. Of course Trudy is here. God knows she'll do what's right. Good old dependable Trudy. She's never rebelled and never will. She'll be the good child to her dying day. Only reason I'm here is to

Carolyn Brown

#44. The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

June Callwood

#45. She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable truth that it could influence her actions, block her desires. A sordid necessity to be grappled with.

Nella Larsen

#46. what to do with her. She'd rebelled because she'd wanted their attention. Any of their attention. All of their

Karen Rose Smith

#47. It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.

Roselyne Bosch

#48. One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated.

Hugo Chavez

#49. I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

Bert McCracken

#50. We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.

Joseph Mawle

#51. When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Alicia Sacramone

#52. I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

Isabel Allende

#53. The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully.

Don Wilton

#54. When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.

Charles Spurgeon

#55. I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years of peeling back the onion to finally stop using make-up as a mask and feel comfortable in my skin.

Jennifer Aniston

#56. When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.

Bjork

#57. I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.

William Kristol

#58. The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

Samuel Barnett

#59. It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

Betty Dodson

#60. The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment.

Emil Cioran

#61. I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#62. My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Ted Ligety

#63. As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter.

Deanna Raybourn

#64. The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#65. I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

Ursula Andress

#66. Chua champions filial obedience, but the father she reveres rebelled against his own parents, and she rebelled against him in turn: he by leaving China for the United States, she by leaving California for the East Coast. (Both, it seems, were trying to get as far away as possible.)

William Deresiewicz

#67. As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Clarence Darrow

#68. Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

Rollo May

#69. She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.

Emilie Loring