Quotes About Cages

#1. I am not a fan of sealed up sterile homes or Faraday cages and their use in human health, although I do understand that some people do feel relief in these environments.

Steven Magee

#2. God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

#3. Doing that kind of work, you really get to know if you like animals. If you can somehow enjoy cleaning out their cages, then you know you genuinely love animals.

Jack Hanna

#4. We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Amy Harmon

#5. In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

#6. A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Horace

#7. The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

Noam Chomsky

#8. A cage stokes our emotions and imaginations, regardless of whether you are inside looking out, or outside looking in.

Michael Makai

#9. There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to a musical half man half bull was all bull.

Don Roff

#10. My cage has many rooms.

Stephen Sondheim

#11. While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

Rumi

#12. I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.

Missy Mazzoli

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

George Jones

#14. Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. When they both realized they were heartbroken enough to want the love torn from their rib cages, they touched each other with their hands and their mouths, and they forgot they wanted to be cured.

Anna-Marie McLemore

#16. The heart loves without boundaries. It is the mind that can trap the heart with cages constructed by society's rules.

Rhiannon Frater

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

John Betjeman

#19. Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

Suzanne Collins

#20. Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.

Massimo Vignelli

#21. Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Alain De Botton

#23. The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

Philip Wollen

#24. I hate cages. For most folks, they're built from fear and they do it to themselves. Not me. Mine were forged of helplessness. Most kids' are.

Karen Marie Moning

#25. Some things weren't meant to live in cages.

Susanna Kearsley

#26. Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.

Jose Aldo

#27. These poems need to be released from their cages,

Coleman Barks

#28. Tires. Drums. Steel cages.
Your place is like Disneyland!

Geonard Yleana

#29. This was Jonan's boat. She had helped Nan Seller dose his entire crew against the annual diarrhea outbreak known as the winter runs

Sarah Zettel

#30. That?" I glanced back to the door where JT had disappeared. "That was Genus Homo, species Whowantstofuckus, subspecies Closeted Headup Hisassia. Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals."
Jacob "Yasha" Livingston

Z.A. Maxfield

#31. What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

Peter Block

#32. Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Robert Anton Wilson

#33. I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.

K.A. Applegate

#34. 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

#35. Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

Pierre Charron

#36. Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries
escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky
usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins

Joanne Harris

#37. HEARTS ARE
WILD CREATURES
THAT'S WHY
OUR RIBS
ARE CAGES.

Anonymous

#38. Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away.
She must do what was necessary to save the crown - and her future.

Sarah J. Maas

#39. I don't like cages,

Richelle Mead

#40. Cages, spanking benches, sawhorses, bondage tables. Scene after scene. Throaty moans, high screams, whining, whimpering, and groaning. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. All his cop instincts shouted for him to get his cuffs out and start arresting people.

Cherise Sinclair

#41. The Eagles's 1977 hit "Hotel California" was a flawless piece of craftsmanship, but it was about upscale fatalism and gilded cages, about the hotel you can check into but never leave. It sounded as though Joan Didion had started writing lyrics. As

Rebecca Solnit

#42. If there was anything she had learned from her mother, it was the painful understanding that cages come in all sizes - some even have white picket fences, four walls, and a front door.

Jamie Ford

#43. The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Hafez

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

Khalil Gibran

#45. Birds that are born in cages live their entire lives dreaming of what the air feels like under their wings.

Alejandro C. Estrada

#46. Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

John B. S. Haldane

#47. Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.

Obert Skye

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

Henry Ward Beecher

#49. Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,
Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,
Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,
Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.

Pushpa Rana

#50. I imagine him grown up and finished with med school, patients lying on the operating table - reaching inside people's rib cages, fixing their broken hearts.

Katie Cotugno

#51. The thief-catcher looked as if he would rather clean the cages with his bare hands. The lions' cages, with the lions inside.

Robert Jordan

#52. It was not all that different from the circus, and it came to town in much the same way. Only instead of elephants and giraffes, there were cameras and microphones. Instead of clowns and cages and tightropes, there were production assistants and trailers and yards upon yards of thick cables.

Jennifer E. Smith

#53. Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)

Eileen Granfors

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

Paolo Di Canio

#56. all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages. "Maybe

Jandy Nelson

#57. I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

Robin Williams

#58. I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

Isaac Marion

#59. Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Morton Feldman

#60. I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

Anais Nin

#61. The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Andre Gide

#62. A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Mahatma Gandhi

#63. Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

Andre Benjamin

#64. Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Aldous Huxley

#65. On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

Greg Egan

#66. What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.

Glenn Greenwald

#67. A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Tennessee Williams

#68. You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable ... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.

Greg Jackson

#69. Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.

Sarah J. Maas

#70. That was Genus Homo, species Whowantstofuckus, subspecies Headup Hisassia. Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals.
Jacob to Ben describing JT

Z.A. Maxfield

#71. The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

Victor Hugo

#72. You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies.

Costas Taktsis

#73. 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

#74. If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages ...

Isak Dinesen

#75. My mind is like a Zoo with no cages ... Watch where you step

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#76. I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

Kedar Joshi

#77. Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#78. A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Vance Havner

#79. Wild rejoice in jungles not in cages.

Pushpa Rana

#80. I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

Dorothea Dix

#81. Your faces are very beautiful,
but they are wooden cages.
You had better run from me.
My words are fire.

Rumi

#82. [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel De Montaigne

#83. Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Rumi

#84. People feeling the need to live inside of Faraday cages is a sad reflection on modern society that humans are devolving into living inside of safe spaces.

Steven Magee

#85. one look his fears of a dog-fighting ring were valid. Blood was spattered around a makeshift wooden ring. Chains were piled up in a corner. He could see where the cages had been placed in the grass by the indents, but they were gone now. A dead cat was dangling from a tree branch.

Kathleen Brooks

#86. It's impossible to own a Norin, no matter how many cages you wrap around them. We will always follow our own star. The best you can do is to hope you've pinned your heart to the same constellation.

Gwynn White

#87. Strange as it may seem - or perhaps it does not seem so strange - they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.

Haruki Murakami

#88. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

Libba Bray

#89. I'm just a beast, I'm just an animal and I'm waiting to get let out of that cage!

Daniel Ricciardo

#90. Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realised that these brilliant and exotic creatures had learned to open the doors.

J.G. Ballard

#91. I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change them into clockwork images or talking shadows. I won't drain out their life's blood. They can do all those things for themselves.

Margaret Atwood

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

Marcelo Rios

#93. There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!

Jeffrey Hunter

#94. As much as I loved it and felt at home within its cages, school is more Hades than Heaven - a ritual killing of childhood is performed in school, children are put to death.

Rabih Alameddine

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

William Blake

#96. I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ... but enjoying the music".

Demetri Martin

#97. The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

Ken Kesey

#98. Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them.

Marty Rubin

#99. Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan

#100. Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

Dean Young