Jail Quotes - Page 18

• Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teacher, Records, Being A Teacher

  6 Copy quote

• That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, People

  4 Copy quote

• As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

  Angela Davis

  Organization, Political, Trials

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The judge gave me a break. He was like: wow, we've never heard of this. So he gave me time served in the county jail, I didn't even get a felony. I have yet to get a felony, which is so crazy. I think Lindsey Lohan has more felonies than me.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Crazy, Thinking, Judging

  Source: bluemesareview.org

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.

  Wale

  Rap, Games, Stuff

  "Interview with Ernest Baker". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

  Morris Chestnut

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  "Press Conference Interview With Morris Chestnut And Monica Calhoun On The Best Man Holiday". Interview with Ben Kenber, wegotthiscovered.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Iraq, Important

  4 Copy quote

• I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

  Chris Christie

  Fighting, Years, Careers

  Chris Christie at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Bye, Fawns, Empty

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Touch of Power”, p.15, MIRA

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.

  Nicholson Baker

  Country, Government, Europe

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Lucky To Be Alive, People, Drunk

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

  Corita Kent

  Art, Brave, Risk

  7 Copy quote

• Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.

  Mary Travers

  Song, Wind, Korea

  19 Copy quote

• I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.

  Ben Hecht

  Sleep, Cities, Fire

  8 Copy quote

• A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Sailing, Navy

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Demand, Letters, Helping

  Source: profitmagazin.com

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Powerful, Men, Two

  Source: profitmagazin.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Dan O'Brien

  Dream, Winning, Drunk

  4 Copy quote

• Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

  John Gay

  Play, Mind, Looks

  John Gay (1808). “Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete”, p.107

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Innocent Man, Hands

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent years in jail before taking political power, while politicians from Chicago do it the other way around.

  Argus Hamilton

  Struggle, Years, Political

  4 Copy quote

• I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in jail more than once and I don't do divorce business. I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don't like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers or sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.

  Raymond Chandler

  Brother, Couple, Divorce

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.87, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

  E. M. Forster

  Horse, Rocks, Views

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sleep, People, Three

  Source: profitmagazin.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I couldn't sell pills no more [because my] homie went to jail. I was just dirt broke. I went to TDE and was literally living in the studio where you record. I went damn near a whole two years not getting sleep because there was always somebody there recording. I was taking baths with dishwashing liquid.I was one of the dudes [who] would never ask for nothing so I would never ask for soap.

  Schoolboy Q

  Sleep, Years, Two

  Source: www.vibe.com

  44 Copy quote

  Show source