Curfew Quotes

• Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

  William O. Douglas

  Rights, Government, Essence

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• The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

  Tessa Jowell

  Majority, Minorities, Behavior

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• All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

  James Hillman

  Birthday, Growing Up, School

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• I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Dad, Safety

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• The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

  Thomas Gray

  Wind, Darkness, Tolls

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 1 (1751)

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• Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Taken, Past, Car

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• Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

  John Milton

  Time, Power, Night

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

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• This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.

  William O. Douglas

  Meaningful, Home, Thinking

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• History doesn't have a curfew.

  John Green

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.8, Penguin

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• I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

  Phil Jackson

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Baby, Peace, Home

  "Baltimore riots: Police use rubber bullets and pepper spray on protesters as violence continues and troops move in" by Scott Malone, Warren Strobel, www.mirror.co.uk. April 29, 2015.

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• Rollover minutes don’t work with curfews.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Minutes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Children, Night, Light

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.113

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• Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.

  Golda Meir

  Men

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• There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Voice, Bells, Poet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.452

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• I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  Aime Cesaire

  Horse, Children, Rain

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• I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Wall, Issues, Parent

  Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.

  Eli Manning

  Brother, Real, Limits

  "Q&A with Eli Manning: QB talks best Super Bowl catch and roughhousing with Peyton". Interview with Jason Cole, August 10, 2012.

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• I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ‘saviorʹ would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.

  Richelle Mead

  Mom, Past, Would Be

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• I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom was caught fraternizing with my dad. My mom was caught, you know, in the building that my father lived in. My mom was caught in a white neighborhood past curfew without the right permits. My mother was caught in transition. And that was key because had she been caught in the act, then, as the law says, she could've spent anywhere up to four years in prison.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew.

  Kami Garcia

  Powerful, Midnight, Hours

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• Well, as much as I love kicking asses and taking names, it's way past curfew for you three"- Arriane

  Lauren Kate

  Past, Names, Three

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.561, Delacorte Press

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• I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're hiding out?" And then I hum a few bars of one of their songs and Mom says, "Oh, I know that song. It's on the mix you made me," and I say, "Right," and she says, "Well you have to be back by eleven," and I say, "Mom this is a historical event. History doesn't have a curfew," and she says, "Back by eleven," and I say, "Fine. Jesus," and then she has to go cut cancer out of someone.

  John Green

  Mom, Song, Jesus

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.8, Penguin

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• My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

  Kelly Clarkson

  Mom, Mother, People

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• Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.

  Thomas Cartwright

  Time, Night, Evil

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