Cages Quotes

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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.

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

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.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

The only good cage is an empty cage.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

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

One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

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

The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.

Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage.

What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.