Cages Quotes - Page 21

• 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.

  Amelia Earhart

  Play, Joy, Connections

  Amelia Earhart, Jean L. Backus (1982). “Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Love You, Negative, Bars

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter.

  Rich Franklin

  Two, Quitting, Quitter

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Song, Giving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.263, Penguin UK

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• It is night,
  And it is vanity, and age
  Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear,
  The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

  Robert Lowell

  Fear, Heart, Night

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Marriage, Bird, Mates

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.124, William Butler Yeats

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• No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.

  David Berlinski

  Simple, Degrees, Bars

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• Mother ... considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage full of cobras.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Mother, Cobras, Publicity

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

  Thomas Beecham

  Bird, Sound, Forks

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

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Freedom

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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

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

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• The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his mother, when he and his father move to a new town. And two things happen the same day that Rob gets sent home. One is he meets a girl named Sistine Bailey, who is what my mother would call "a piece of work," and he finds a real tiger in a cage in the woods behind the motel where he lives with his dad. And that's the story: what happens with the Sistine tiger, the real tiger and Rob's grief.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Mother, Children

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. In-depth Written Interview.

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• I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”

  Coleman Barks

  Needs

  "Love’s Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 16, 1995.

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

  Nicanor Parra

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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

  Insane Person, Gentleman, Naked

  Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4

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• All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Animal, Opportunity, Shots

  Source: dailydead.com

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• 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.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Artist, Thinking, Long

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• Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.

  Andy Greenwald

  Eye, Waiting, Silence

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• The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

  Maureen Dowd

  Sacrifice, White, Appreciate

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• Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?
  Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts.
  So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess,
  And to stop the muscle that makes us confess

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Heart, Cutting, Simple

  Song: Breakable, 2007

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• Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today is money... capital.

  Arundhati Roy

  Moving, People, Today

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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.

  Jessica Cox

  Missing, Hug, Heavy

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.

  Jim Goad

  Eye, Years, Two

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that scary, but I do remember skinned people in cages under the stairs and a man who lived in a wall without a tongue… and that’s why I cry after sex.

  Ellen Page

  Sex, Wall, Smart

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• It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Winning, Wings, Free Spirit

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