Cages Quotes

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Put God and me in a cage, what do you think who will win. God, because I created him.

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

You get hit by one of those right hands or an uppercut or a left hook by Mark Hunt, then you know that **** is on and that cage is locked, and there's nowhere to go.

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

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.

I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

« Barabas pulled Christopher out of the cage. The man stared up at him. “I died, didn’t I? Are you an angel?” “Sure,” Barabas said. “Follow me to the Heavenly Shower »

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.

I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

He who frees a bird from its cage is surely a holy person!

Like chaos in a glass cage.

For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.

I'll get a nice little break, after doing Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Whether I'm in [his show], I don't know, but there's The Defenders.

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.

Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.