Detention Quotes

I defend non-criminal detention.

— Benjamin Wittes

I was in detention a lot.

— Jake Lloyd

Meee on the left. <3

— Delaney Ridnour

The only time I went to class was when I was serving a detention.

— Lil B

I first heard Pantera after getting out of a detention center as a kid.

— Ivan Moody

Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

— Najib Razak

Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that." Percy: "Detention?

— Rick Riordan

“It was just a slight malfunction of character.”

— Cath Crowley

“Detention turned out to be code for slavery.”

— Jus Accardo

All roads lead there child. You should know that." "Detention?

— Rick Riordan

“How much detention did you get? "Two weeks. One per arsehole.”

— Stephanie Perkins

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

— Judy Sheindlin

“Ann did detention like Whitney Houston did cocaine—frequently and without consideration of the consequences.”

— Sage Steadman

[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of…

— Chris Matthews

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people…

— Greg Boyle

“Because American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.”

— Anonymous

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

— Barack Obama

I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.

— Arnaz Battle

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

— Amanda Holden

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just…

— Aphex Twin

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever…

— Shirin Ebadi

I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this…

— Mika

There was a time when my uncle was in an immigration detention center, and members of our community would take turns visiting…

— Opal Tometi

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's…

— Evel Knievel

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to…

— Michael Morpurgo

There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they…

— Thabo Mbeki

Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention…

— Glenn Greenwald

One of the things that concerns me is the lack of adult supervision, and more specifically, caring adult supervision, at various reform…

— Adam Rapp

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called…

— Lemon Andersen

To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend – because there is no force in…

— Barack Obama

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

— Vanessa Redgrave

The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal,…

— Julian Assange

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We…

— Kate Millett

The way I understood purgatory - and maybe you've got a different version - but in Chicago in the '70s, the idea…

— George Saunders

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories…

— Barack Obama

“I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

— Ai Weiwei

“So...what? Skipping detention is a crime?”

— M.B. Lambert

I was quite capable at school, but I spent a lot of time in detention.

— Dick Strawbridge

I wasn't a very well-behaved girl. I was often in detention for impertinence.

— Brigitte Macron