Cages Quotes by Ted Hughes, Carlos Delgado, Richard Selzer, Mindy Kaling, Anne Dudley, Jane Goodall and many others.
A person isn’t a bird. You can’t cage a person.
I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature‘s cage.
There are certain times you rattle the press‘s cages, and other times you don’t, and you have to be discerning about it.
Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Without wilderness, the world’s a cage.
Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
I’ve never used music to sell my faith and I’ve never used faith to sell my music. I think they are both intrinsic parts of who I am. We’ve always tried to define our music outside of genres…what is a genre? A genre’s a cage or a box and for us our music is best with fangs and some claws running free in the wild.
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
I’m especially interested in the music of John Cage… I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.
There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of “romantic paternalism” which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Tis Vanth’s cage. You can just move it out of the way.” “I already have,” he grumbles. “With my shin.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You’re an animal in a cage and you’re treated like one.
Friends don’t build cages for each other.
I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I’d be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.
I think of the quietness of Julian’s voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don’t come.
If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
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.
YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He’s so courageous.
There’s a way out of any cage, and I’ll find it!
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
What I enjoyed about being in the world of Jessica Jones, as Luke Cage, is that I wasn’t front and center because it was Jessica Jones‘ story, but it allowed me to find the character from a different perspective.
We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.
Please let us not interfere with the other’s work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.
I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!
Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.
Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
Hollywood has always been a cage…a cage to catch our dreams
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.
My daily sins require daily distribution of God’s grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don’t deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.
I don’t believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort of symmetrical sense to me. I really believe that if somebody takes a life, that [death penalty] is what they should get. I also think it’s a lot more humane than keeping people in a cage for the rest of their life.
You’ve got to rattle your cage door. You’ve got to let them know that you’re in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you’ll sure have a lot more fun.
All the world’s indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another’s audience outside the gilded cage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another’s audience outside the gilded cage
Prosthetics just felt very foreign to me: You wear them on your shoulders, strap them to your chest, and they’re heavy and uncomfortable. If someone gave you a hug, you’d miss that touch. They were more like a cage for me.
I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.
Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd.” -Cage
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra… Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
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.
Back in the day, I came up with the expression “Same Animal – Different Cages” to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I’ve just broadened the meaning of that.
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.
Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely – unimpeded – around the world today is money… capital.
When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.
We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.