Prison Quotes · Page 30

I worked at a mortgage company, and after I left, most of the office went to jail.

— John Pinette

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

— David Mitchell

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

— Martha Stewart

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

— Yo Gotti

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

— Paris Hilton

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

— Robert Greene

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

— James Forman, Jr

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

— Jack Layton

Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people.…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

You do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that for…

— Kevin Sabet

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather…

— Belle Boyd

If Anglo feels it hasn't done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want…

— Sean Quinn

“It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in…

— Elizabeth Wein

I was practicing intermittent fasting while I was in prison. My window of intermittent fasting was between 16 and 17 hours on…

— Michael Sorrentino

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man…

— Lucy Freeman

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with…

— Maurice Ashley

African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That…

— Soledad O'Brien

“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves…

— Paul Beatty

In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the…

— Catherine Fisher

Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years…

— Jonah Goldberg

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American…

— Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr

When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex,…

— Ava DuVernay

“He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit…

— Robert D. Hare

“With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be…

— Michael Finkel

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

— Amanda Knox

What do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number.

— Dana Gould

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

— Anonymous

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.

— Roger Ross Williams

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

— Gary Gilmore

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

— John Milton

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

— Philip Emeagwali

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

— P. W. Botha

The policeman said to me, son they won't build no schools anymore. All they'll build will be prison.

— Lucky Dube

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

— Gregory Corso

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

— Robert Burns

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

— Dave Winfield

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

— Jose Canseco

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

— Eugene V. Debs

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

— Freddy Fender