Prison Quotes · Page 43

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

— Edward Snowden

“You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.”

— Piper Kerman

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

— Daniel Drew

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

— Jim Goad

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

— Patricia McConnell

I went to AA meetings when I was in prison. And I hope I've gone some way to turning my life around.

— Joey Barton

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

— Talib Kweli

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

— Stephenie Meyer

I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I…

— Diane Farr

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk…

— Lee Trevino

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

— Roger Avary

Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the…

— Jeff Smith

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under…

— Jimmy Carter

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red…

— Albert Camus

Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun. I would love to speak…

— David Berkowitz

I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair.…

— Peter S. Beagle

“There are many, many ways to be imprisoned. You don’t need fences, handcuffs, chains, or steel bars. Your heart or your own…

— Cary Allen Stone

Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that.…

— Jack Abramoff

Family and friends don't deserve to lose a family member because someone killed them for no reason. If the person is caught.…

— Glen Rambharack

That Mujib [Rahiman] had been arrested I found out at eight in the morning, when I left. How did I take it?…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I…

— Edeet Ravel

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the…

— Bryan Stevenson

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

— Anais Nin

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

— Wavy Gravy

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

— Henry Louis Gates

“Das Paradigma ist ein furchtbares Gefängnis. (The paradigm is a terrible prison.)”

— Anonymous

“What you took as yourself begins to look like a little prison-house far away in the valley beneath you.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

— Barry McCaffrey

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

— James Belushi

“In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise”

— W.H. Auden

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

— Lena Dunham

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

— William Shakespeare

You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

— Muhammad Ali

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

— Marc Lamont Hill

I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'

— Dominic Purcell

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

— George W. Bush

“I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”

— Quentin Tarantino