Quotes About Caged Birds

#1. 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

#2. Caged birds still sing beautiful symphonies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

John Webster

#4. Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Tennessee Williams

#5. James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song.

Alice Hoffman

#6. Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

Thorolf Rafto

#7. That is thy home burning. That is the Normans' work, and never thee forget it!

Rosemary Sutcliff

#8. You look nervous."
"I'm ... a little nervous."
"You'll be fine. You're pretty. You're alien. You'll trend well.

Chuck Wendig

#9. I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#10. The Harivansa says, "An abode without birds is like a meat without seasoning." Such was not my abode, for I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. I wanted to boast to everyone,"This woman is mine. Take a look at my treasure.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#12. I was caged by him like a bird with clipped wings. I could flutter but I couldn't escape though I'm not certain I'd want to even if I could.

Paloma Beck

#13. It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

Karl Landsteiner

#14. I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. The word preached is not only to inform you but reform you;

Thomas Watson

#16. Hope
your time from the end of the year to
start of a new year
always sounds 'it will be happier and fruitful' ...

Santosh Kalwar

#17. In his left hand he was holding aloft the German flag; with his right he was shaking hands in smiling effusion with a bald-headed man whose face looked like a pot of lard that has boiled over and eventually congealed in white, flabby, unhealthy drifts and folds.

H.E. Bates

#18. Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

Anuj

#19. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

Stephen King

#20. Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kathleen Hanna

#21. A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

J.G. Holland

#22. Creativity would not exist as successfully or efficiently without its social world. The social is not the by-product - it is the decisive mechanism by which cultural products and cultural producers are generated, evaluated and sent to the market.

Elizabeth Currid

#23. some birds aren't ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright....

Stephen King

#24. You gave them everything I had!" the boy said. "Everything I've saved in my entire life!" "Well, what good would it be to you if you had to die?" the alchemist answered. "Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life." But

Paulo Coelho

#25. There were worse things than being young and foolish.

Cathie Pelletier

#26. Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful
but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. There shall come a day when Birds shall be free ... and humans will see ...

K. Hari Kumar

#28. But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

Paul Laurence Dunbar