Top 44 Like A Bird In A Cage Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Like A Bird In A Cage

#1. 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

#2. He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots.

Kate Alcott

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Bennie Thompson

#6. A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother's lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.

Debasish Mridha

#7. 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

#8. A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.

Samuel Johnson

#9. 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.

#10. Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism ... It is capitalism dying, not dead.

Vladimir Lenin

#11. I am a very good housekeeper. which I have no reluctance in doing, because I really think it is my peculiar excellence, and for this reason, I always take care to provide such things as please my own appetite, which I consider as the chief merit in housekeeping.

Jane Austen

#12. It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk about the inside from the inside, I do not want to leave it
I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread

Helene Cixous

#13. Wisdom is in silence.

Debasish Mridha

#14. What else have you gained?'
'The joy of being alive. I know that I'm here, and that everything is a miracle, a revelation.

Paulo Coelho

#15. The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.

Jack Kerouac

#16. I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and, therefore, there's not a lot of opinions for people to look at.

George W. Bush

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

Zach Woods

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Once written, a classic text is like a bird released from its cage. It develops a life of its own. Its "meaning" is not locked in.

Harvey Cox

#25. 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

#26. When put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.

Louise Penny

#27. 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

#28. Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.

Alistair Begg

#29. It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

Oscar De La Renta

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.

Lisa See

#33. 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

#34. Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.

Ferdinand Von Mueller

#35. Souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage

Giorgos Seferis

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

Sona Charaipotra

#37. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#39. 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