Tom Green Quotes

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

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.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

You don’t need to admire power, but you must always, however grudgingly, respect and understand it.

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

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.

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

You can't put an age on power.

That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.

I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.