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Tag Name "Cages" (43)

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Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.
Amy Harmon
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One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.
Viola Spolin
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We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
George Lucas
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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
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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.
Hunter S. Thompson
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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
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You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.
Jane Goodall
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Friends don’t build cages for each other.
Karen Marie Moning
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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
Ken Kesey
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We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.
Maia Szalavitz
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Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.
Morley Safer
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Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
Pierre Charron
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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
Aldous Huxley
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Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
Rumi
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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
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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.
Angela Carter
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When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam all over again. Only we were actually doing it ourselves, we weren't hiring another government to do it.
Tom Harkin
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I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
Carl Sagan
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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
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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
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The eyes of others our prisons their thoughts our cages.
Virginia Woolf
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
Gerry Cheevers
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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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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