In A Cage Quotes

#1. A man driving a wagonload of children in a cage doesn't have to state his business. A farmer whose flesh lies sunken around his bones, and whose eyes are the colour of hunger, doesn't have to explain himself if he walks up to such a man. Hunger lies beneath all of our ugliest transactions.

Mark Lawrence

#2. I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.

Ned Hayes

#3. She was a kept thing, shackled to a master who would never let her go, locked in a cage of dreams.

Heather Demetrios

#4. Running the race
Like a mouse in a cage
Getting nowhere but I'm trying
Forging ahead
But I'm stuck in the bed
That I made so I'm lying

A Fine Frenzy

#5. You ask me to make a promise? I am in a cage. No promise I make is trustworthy because I would do anything to be rid of this cage. Promise me that you will not treat me like an animal or a spectacle, and I will see what I can do.

J.M. McDermott

#6. We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

Tom Robbins

#8. I felt like an animal in a cage being stared at by other animals, all of us anonymous, mindless, interchangeable.

Leah Raeder

#9. There were always going to be people willing to trade a place in a cage for a gun and somebody they could point it at. No

Mira Grant

#10. You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.

Matthew J. Kirby

#11. Assaulting an officer will earn you one to five, Roarke. That's in a cage, not cushy home detention."
"You're not wearing your badge. Or anything else, for that matter." He gave her a friendly nip on the chin. "Be sure to put that in your report.

J.D. Robb

#12. Still it made no sense to Pershing that one set of people could be in a cage, and the people outside couldn't see the bars.

Isabel Wilkerson

#13. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Kahlil Gibran

#14. Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Michael Moorcock

#15. You can't put this possum in a cage

George Jones

#16. You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

Tom Stoppard

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

Craig Stone

#18. The lesson is that you're just an animal in a cage, no more than that, no better than that.

Stephen King

#19. Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

John Betjeman

#20. Society says that to free a man from his demons you have to lock him in a cage; I say to lock his demons in a cage you have to free the man from society.

Jakk Folley

#21. They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

Raegan Butcher

#22. What a pity that most young people instead of seeing one animal in nature--which is worth a hundred in any Zoo--must derive their knowledge of God's creatures from their appearance in prisons. ... How do we manage to think that we know all about an animal by gazing at him penned in a cage?

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

#23. People would say - to break free, to soar, and sadly, to chop your wings too. The moment you listen to them, you voluntarily put yourself in a cage.
Be a free soul - fly or fall on your own terms.

Saru Singhal

#24. Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?

Shannon Hale

#25. Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free ... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators ... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

Scarlett Thomas

#26. Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Philip Kerr

#27. 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

#28. He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Khalil Gibran

#29. A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#30. The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

Philip Pullman

#31. A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry Ward Beecher

#32. The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. Until we do, we are hamsters in a cage chasing our own tails and wondering why we aren't getting the results we seek.

Joe Vitale

#33. you. If you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage.

Rhonda Byrne

#34. Saw a science program the other day. Rats were crawling through their own food to get to crack cocaine. The conclusion was that rats would rather starve with food in front of them than give up crack. The conclusion was wrong: rats will do anything to forget they are in a cage ~ John P. McAfee

John P. McAfee

#35. A lion can't stay in a cage. A lion has to be on the pitch.

Paolo Di Canio

#36. we're reduced to our bones, to two teenagers grumbling in a cage. I

Victoria Aveyard

#37. You should go update your Match profile with that information. The ladies will be lining up outside, because nothing screams romance like being held captive in a cage.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#38. A lot of people are like, "What do you do to get pumped up for a fight?" Like, really? You're locked in a cage with someone trying to kill you in front of thousands of people. It's not too hard to get pumped up ... You've got to calm everything down, you've got to remind yourself to relax.

Stephan Bonnar

#39. 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

#40. You think I'm perfect, but I feel like a songbird trapped in a cage.

Christina L. Barr

#41. One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!

Kristen Schaal

#42. The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius.

Chloe Thurlow

#43. If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline's fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness?

Kristen Reed

#44. Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.

Ed Brubaker

#45. I am in a cage. I desire to be set free.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. 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

#47. My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.

Sona Charaipotra

#48. I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

Conan O'Brien

#49. That was torture
being able to see, and smell, and hear, and being trapped in a cage. Like standing on the wrong side of the fence, only a few feet from freedom, and knowing you'll never cross it. Yeah. Like that.

Lauren Oliver

#50. Still cries at a good film,
Still kisses with saliva,
No longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
That's driven into frozen winter shit
(The ability to laugh at weakness),
Calm,
Fitter,
Healthier and more productive
A pig in a cage on antibiotics.

Radiohead

#51. Having dreams without enthusiasm is like a bird living in a cage.

Debasish Mridha

#52. He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#53. For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion ... and a man no longer believes he is a man.

John Eldredge

#54. I am a wolf that my sister kept in a cage, until her hand was removed.

Mindy McGinnis

#55. I feel like I'm seeing a sparrow in a cage, something young and innocent trapped by grasping hands.
And I think that perhaps my own cage is simply larger than hers, so large I have never been fully aware of its edges.

Amy Ewing

#56. I not only weaken the opposition, I'm going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

Hun Sen

#57. 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

#58. Every girl thinks about growing up in a palace. Few ever ponder living in a cage.

Ally Carter

#59. We are very much like birds that have lived too long in a cage to which we return even when we get the chance to fly away. We have grown so accustomed to our faults that we can barely imagine what life would be like without them. The prospect of change makes us dizzy.

Matthieu Ricard

#60. It's always better to like a gangster from a distance anyway. Like a tiger cub in a cage. They always look soft and cute and warm behind those iron bars. Everybody's happy, smilimg, waving, taking pictures. But you take away those bars and all that goes away. All that's left is the fear.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

#61. If a robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage,
How feels heaven when
Dies the billionth battery hen?

Spike Milligan

#62. I hesitated at the top of the stairs, feeling nervous and stupid, for this was a situation I had not experienced before, and my training did not seem to be quite equal to it. Also, I suddenly thought of the parrot in a cage and that was distracting.

Barbara Pym

#63. When I saw you, I saw tears of love in your eyes. It tamed my fire of love and imprisoned me in a cage of desires.

Debasish Mridha

#64. In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

Marcelo Rios

#65. The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person.

Daniel Keyes

#66. How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

William Blake

#67. The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.

Rumi

#68. My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.
-Alina Chase

Megan Miranda

#69. It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

Sarah Ferguson

#70. I saw a dog in a cage. And that cage had a sign on it that said, 'I bite.' And I was like, 'That is good to know doggy, but that's not the most important thing about you. You should make a sign that says, 'I make signs.'

Doug Benson

#71. Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

Anna Dello Russo

#72. People don't belong to people. I'm not gonna let anyone put me in a cage.

Truman Capote

#73. Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Laurence J. Peter

#74. The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

Angelina Jolie

#75. Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.

Elinor Glyn

#76. Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

John Fowles

#77. You parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

Rhonda Byrne

#78. 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

#79. On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.

Kate Beckinsale

#80. The hens are clucking. Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth. If

Joe Hill

#81. Capture Nikolai. Put him in a cage. See if we could pull him from the shadow's grasp. The too-clever fox, finally caught. I blinked and looked away. I didn't want to cry again.

Leigh Bardugo

#82. 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

#83. Why would anyone want to live in a cage when we are free persons? This is the point to make, when we can rattle cages it means we are behind bars and are not free.

Leviak B. Kelly

#84. A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.

Paulo Coelho

#85. 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

#86. I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.

Todd Barry

#87. She was everything that was beautiful in his world. His light, his smile, his heart. If anything happened to her, he would die. But he couldn't keep her in a cage or behind glass, because then she would die. Or leave him. And that, he couldn't stand.

Kori David

#88. You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Bob Dylan

#89. It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

Jordan Dane

#90. 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

#91. Put God and me in a cage, what do you think who will win. God, because I created him.

Zach Braff

#92. We soon fall asleep in each other's arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.

Fernando Lachica

#93. When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion.

Robert C. O'Brien

#94. An evolutionary biologist and a fundamentalist may see the same chimpanzee sitting in a cage, but in another important way, they do not. And they may approach the details of their lives in very different ways.

Peg O'Connor

#95. But fear isn't a quiet pet that stays in a cage in the back room. Rather, as termites undermine the internal workings of a structure until it collapses from within, fear spreads to every part of your life unless you deal with it.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#96. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

#97. Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#98. I'm not living in a cage.

C.D. Reiss

#99. My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.

Tullian Tchividjian

#100. NIGHTINGALE The nightingale does not make his nest in a cage lest slavery be the lot of its chicks. BW-ST-122

Kahlil Gibran