Cages Quotes · Page 4

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

— Sylvia Plath

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

— Tennessee Williams

“The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.”

— James Patterson

“Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages.”

— Dean Young

“I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.”

— Will Christopher Baer

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

— Virginia Woolf

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

— Spiro T. Agnew

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun…

— Henry Ward Beecher

You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not…

— Rich Franklin

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she…

— Edward Hoagland

Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.

— Anonymous

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and…

— John Eldredge

“The frustrating thing about cages is that you’re trapped but you can see exactly what you want. You can reach out from…

— Roxane Gay

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is,…

— Craig Stone

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up,…

— Lisa Marie Presley

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars,…

— Dorothea Dix

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it…

— Tom Robbins

I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they…

— Rumi

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the…

— Julie Schumacher

Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts? Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts. So it's fairly…

— Ingrid Michaelson

That’s really sweet.” He grinned and reached for a plate. “Then I believe my mission is accomplished.” Laughing softly so I didn’t…

— Abbi Glines

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have…

— Dave McKean

I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think…

— Madonna Ciccone

Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why…

— Dawn Powell

Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're…

— George Jonas

If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that…

— Swami Vivekananda

I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I…

— Abbi Glines

Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in…

— Michelle Alexander

So we have that, where there are moments where it's just Nic Cage and Amber Heard and you're in the car with…

— Todd Farmer

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of…

— Anonymous

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

— Paolo Giordano

One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.

— Viola Spolin

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the…

— David Mitchell

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

— Aimee Mann

I'll get a nice little break, after doing Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Whether I'm in [his show], I don't know, but…

— Mike Colter

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to…

— Elton John

I want to protect innocent people from sin by locking them in cages, where the evil can't get to them.

— Anonymous