Top 100 Bird Cage Quotes
#1. A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.
Sebastian Barry
#2. Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
Klaus Kinski
#4. The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
Thomas Beecham
#5. Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Marilyn Monroe
#6. At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage.
Big bird cage.
Really big bird.
Harlan Ellison
#7. If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."
Alan Watts
#8. Parakeets do best during the day at temperatures of 60 F to 70 F / 15.6 C - 21.1 C, and should never be allowed to experience less than 40 F / 4.4 C at night. Cover the cage at night to give the bird privacy and to keep it warmer.
Rose Sullivan
#10. And I wake, in the cage of my bones,
on the same cold ground.
John Burnside
#11. Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
William Butler Yeats
#12. 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 tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
William Blake
#13. A bird who hurt her wing,
now forgotten how to fly.
A song she used to sing,
but can't remember why.
A breath she caught and kept -
that left her in a sigh.
It hurts her so to love you,
but she won't say goodbye.
Lang Leav
#14. If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#15. She dreamed of escape - of growing wings like a bird and flying away from the palace, never to return. But, alas, she was a bird still locked tightly in her cage.
Morgan Rhodes
#16. I am a bird of God's garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country.
Rumi
#17. Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily Dickinson
#18. She deserved it, the snake. After keeping my little golden bird locked up in her cage for so long.
Marissa Meyer
#20. You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.
Elton John
#21. In all his trials he was sustained and at times even exalted by a secret strength in himself. The soul aids the body and at moments uplifts it. It is the only bird that can endure a cage.
Victor Hugo
#22. A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.
Paulo Coelho
#23. I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.
Kyle Dunnigan
#24. Souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage
Giorgos Seferis
#25. No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.
Sonya Hartnett
#26. Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.
Priscilla Welch
#27. I'm sorry little bird But that was the way you were made. There will always be distance. But we will make sure your gilded cage Is resplendent. You will live seperate, but we will keep you so busy That you don't know You're not free.
Rex Emerson Jackson
#28. The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
Rumi
#29. How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
William Blake
#30. When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
Randolph Sinks Foster
#31. Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
Andre Maurois
#32. Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#33. 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 is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.
Charlotte Bronte
#34. Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.
David Michie
#35. Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Teach them the shame that tells the lie, "I am unforgivable," when the truth is, "I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control." Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.
Geoffrey Wood
#38. Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below
Jacob Grimm
#39. He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots.
Kate Alcott
#40. Happiness is like a bird. If it chooses
to sit on your roof, you cannot capture it and put it in a cage.
Farin Powell
#41. Do you want to be kept in a little cage? No! Because it is a horror! But then why do you keep a little bird in a cage?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
Will Cuppy
#43. I look through the cage ... an absolute beauty of yours ...
Ankur Kumar Shah
#44. I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
William Carlos Williams
#45. I am a caged bird,
rattling the bars of my cage,
with furious flutterings,
break my chains!
Free my spirit!
Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul
with heaven dipped ink
Steven James
#46. Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely.
William Shakespeare
#47. The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
Victor Hugo
#48. You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.
Tori Amos
#49. I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.
Han Nolan
#50. No bird in a cage has ever come to know what the mountain winds feel like, by staring at the free flying birds, wishing that they would fall from the sky!
C. JoyBell C.
#51. Leaving what is safe so you can be more, Derek said. The cage is what the bird knows; the sky is all the things he still wants to do even if it's a risk.
Ilona Andrews
#52. When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!
Winston Churchill
#53. A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.
Samuel Johnson
#54. 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
#55. The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greer
#56. There shall come a day when Birds shall be free ... and humans will see ...
K. Hari Kumar
#57. A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#58. He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
Khalil Gibran
#59. The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
Epes Sargent
#60. A loan is the scissors of friendship.
A man's own tongue may cut his throat.
The cage has no value without the bird.
Idries Shah
#61. We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
Michel De Montaigne
#62. The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
Rachel Field
#63. To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.
Lisa See
#64. Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
John Cage
#65. There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#67. The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly.
Kate Morton
#68. Resentment is a cage, talent is a captured bird.
Elif Shafak
#69. In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and at certain moments uplifts it. It is the only bird which sustains its cage.
Victor Hugo
#70. A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
Sharon Creech
#71. Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
Michel De Montaigne
#72. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil Gibran
#73. He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.
Colleen McCullough
#74. While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.
Rumi
#75. Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.
Dave McKean
#76. If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
Olive Schreiner
#77. The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can't fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.
Caroline Kepnes
#78. He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate.
Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.
Alice Hoffman
#79. The poor child felt like a little bird that is placed in a glittering cage.
Johanna Spyri
#80. Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly
Bram Stoker
#81. Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.
Jaggi Vasudev
#82. I am strong and on the road to recovery away from the place that caused so much pain. I am free. I am a bird whose broken wing is now mended and I am able to escape the steel cage I was once trapped in.
Mary E. Palmerin
#83. My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.
Sri Chinmoy
#84. When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
Rumi
#85. 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 that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.
Michelle Moran
#86. Having dreams without enthusiasm is like a bird living in a cage.
Debasish Mridha
#87. More than the aspirations of an innocuous bird inside a cage, its the story of the cage that fascinates.
Ashutosh Gupta
#88. Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#89. My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.
Sona Charaipotra
#91. She reminded Juliet of the parrot the shopkeeper owned. Both the woman and bird belonged in cages, preferably the same cage, so the bird could poop on all that velvet and lace.
Jordan Elizabeth Mierek
#92. Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.
Arthur J. Lamb
#93. The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.
Victor Hugo
#94. I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.
Rabindranath Tagore
#95. I am the bird of the spiritual Garden,
not of this world of dust; for a few days,
they have a cage of my body made.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#96. I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.
Rudolf Steiner
#97. The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.
Brian Francis Slattery
#98. Abby's eyes seemed almost as vacant as those of the girl in the photograph. Then a shiver came over her and she blinked. Gently, almost affectionately, she put the picture back on the wall. She touched it one last time and said, Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.
Madeleine Roux
#99. When it's like this, I don't notice the cold. I don't hear the wind howling through the empty spaces. I don't feel like a small, broken-winged bird trapped in a rusty cage.
Sarah Ockler
#100. If I release my bird from its cage, I think I have given it freedom as I watch it fly away. But, what good to the bird is its freedom if its mind is still in the cage?
Princess Mazzaloulou
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