Prison Quotes · Page 16

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

— Jeffrey Archer

You know you've lived in LA to long when what you fear most about prison is a lack of organic produce.

— Dov Davidoff

“We all have our own magnificent prisons, even the queen, I’d venture.”

— Fiona Davis

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

— Claire McCaskill

The biggest prison you will likely ever live in is your fear of what other people think.

— Suman Rai

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

— Steve Earle

“Religion is the hereditary prison of the human mind , and your parents and your siblings are your jailers .”

— Gerald Lanteigne

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

— Homer

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

— Sufjan Stevens

“The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining…

— Manju Kapur

“Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only…

— Nigel Brennan

“They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you…

— Joyce Cary

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a…

— Benazir Bhutto

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may…

— Elizabeth Fry

The magistrate who originally sentenced Eric Cantona to prison said that millions of young people saw him as a role model and…

— Harry Enfield

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush,…

— Ja Rule

I was denied parole because I hadn't received treatment for my multiple personality disorder but the doctors in prison didn't believe in…

— Carole Hanrahan

There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, "Oh you went to…

— Immortal Technique

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…

— Jonathan Franzen

I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be…

— Lisa Gardner

I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He…

— El DeBarge

It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their…

— Rose George

To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads.…

— Varg Vikernes

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

— Pierre Fresnay

“Laura hated to lie, but she was pretty sure she’d hate prison more.”

— Pamela Clare

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

— Rodney Dangerfield

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I…

— Varg Vikernes

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

— Benazir Bhutto

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

— Jordi Cuixart

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

— Rodney Dangerfield

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

— Rumi

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

— Anonymous

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

— Misha Collins

Having fears is like being in prison, you have no way out, only to face them..

— Trilla

“Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say.”

— Kathleen Flinn

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

— Susan Burton

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

— Sheldon B. Kopp