Top 38 Inmate Quotes
#1. Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
Gunter Grass
#2. Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
Ja Rule
#3. Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
Laurie Notaro
#4. The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
Deepak Chopra
#5. In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.
Doris Roberts
#6. Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.
Hoagy Carmichael
#8. Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?
Antonio Negri
#9. If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.
Malcolm X
#10. That was an evil terror
an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity.
George Eliot
#11. treat you like a criminal," he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob Dylan came on the screen. "People want to own the music they love.
Walter Isaacson
#12. Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard
#13. That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#14. Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit
Chip Heath
#15. It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
James Bryant Conant
#16. An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.
Thomas Sowell
#17. I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.
Thomas Bernhard
#18. Yes, fear was the kind of prison where you made yourself the inmate and the jailer.
A.J. Sand
#19. I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.
Kim Coates
#20. The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.
Alice Walker
#21. I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.
Cecily McMillan
#22. We had a genuine love for each other, and we loved being around each other, and in the gang was where I felt love. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison
Drexel Deal
#23. Their love was like a prison, and I the willing inmate.
Steve Maraboli
#24. In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.
John Grisham
#25. The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.
Tessa Thompson
#26. I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.
Danny Trejo
#27. I would rather die and to go hell than wake up one day and find myself an inmate in that guesthouse of gone minds, gone things, bad carpets, furniture that needs permission.
Ali Smith
#28. Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
Bobby Scott
#29. A Mexican will call a black inmate miyate, which means big black bean; or yanta, tire; or terron, shark.
Jodi Picoult
#30. The fellow inmate shook his head and walked away mumbling to himself. Andrews smiled
William Roy Pipes
#31. The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.
Pete Wilson
#32. Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.
Cammie McGovern
#33. Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate entered voluntarily, locked the door, and threw away the key.
Haruki Murakami
#34. The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.
Patricia McConnell
#35. We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#36. There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
Wentworth Miller
#37. Lunacy, like the rain, falls upon the evil and the good, and although it must forever remain a fearful misfortune, yet there may be no more sin or shame in it than there is in an ague fit or a fever.
Inmate Of The Glasgow Royal Asylum
#38. This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent.
Antonin Scalia
