Why The Caged Bird Sings Quotes

#1. I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#2. I know why the caged bird sings.

Maya Angelou

#3. There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

Eberhard Weber

#4. When I first made the team I didn't even know there was a national team. So to meit was all new. When I got asked to go on the trip to China I was 16. I said, 'well you know what I have to ask my parents.' So I called home and I am like, 'Mom and Dad can I go to China?' They were like 'sure.'

Kristine Lilly

#5. On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.

Shinzo Abe

#6. They're monsters."
"That's what Edward thought."
"Oh, yeah? He a friend of yours?"
"No, Miss Librarian. Just a main character in a wildly popular vampire series.

Shannon Delany

#7. When a child is born in a jail and during their life all they know is the jail they were born into, the idea of freedom becomes so terrifying that they ridicule the very thought of being free, as a clinical illness. It is nothing like the song that a caged bird sings.

Alejandro C. Estrada

#8. Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou

#10. Emulation without revelation is rarely profitable.

Kirby Clements

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Melvin Powers

#12. I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Larry Hagman

#13. Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

William Wordsworth

#14. The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Germaine Greer

#15. The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#16. Whosoe'er shall take the sword Shall perish by the sword.

Aeschylus

#17. Get married with the feeling it is going to last. Not like the bride I know who doubled the wedding cake recipe and froze one.

Phyllis Diller

#18. I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Howard Stern