Taylor Swift Quotes

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.

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

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to.

I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

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.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

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

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

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

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

There are .. two choices: obedience to institutional authority or radical dissent from it.

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

To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

You discover two things when you're a teenager. One, that your parents are not the idols that you thought they were when you were growing up, if you had nice parents. And two, that you have power over them, and you can upset them and confront them and attack them.