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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You can't put this possum in a cage

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

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

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

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

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

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

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

What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

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.

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

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Love your rage, not your cage.

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

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

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

Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.

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

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit

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

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

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

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.