Cages Quotes

367 Cages quotes by 307 unique authors

I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she… — Elizabeth Wein
The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your… — Unknown Author
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. — Carl Sagan
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While… — Yukio Mishima
Should've thought of that before you told my ex-girlfriend I eat live kittens for breakfast." A tiny twinge of guilt. Then the cat wondered what… — Nalini Singh
Leo dropped into the pool and approched the cage. "Hola, Tia. Little bit of trouble?" She [Hera] crossed her arms and sighed in exasperation. "Don't… — Rick Riordan
Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash… — Rick Riordan
If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to… — Laurell K. Hamilton
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne
I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams. — Anais Nin
Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds… — Suzanne Collins
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might… — George Saunders
I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird… — Michelle Moran
-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay… — Christine Feehan
Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage. — Lewis Hyde
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive… — Charlotte Bronte
May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the… — Libba Bray
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. — Sheldon B. Kopp
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in. — John Cage
To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat… — Peter Singer
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell. — Raegan Butcher
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments… — Rob Bell
How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his… — William Blake
Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps… — Obert Skye

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