Wardens Quotes

• Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

  August Strindberg

  Police, Society, Officials

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• Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

  Alice Cooper

  Cells, Order, Law

  Song: Wind-Up Toy, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.

  Christopher Fowler

  Hate, Fall, Fabric

  Christopher Fowler (2010). “The Victoria Vanishes: (Bryant and May Book 6)”, p.248, Random House

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• Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Powerful, Age, Literature

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1959). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

  William Kunstler

  America, Talking, People

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• Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

  Bob Gunton

  Redemption, Welcome, Ass

  "Fictional character: Warden Samuel Norton". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Trouble, Ends, Said

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Family, Growing Up

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• In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.

  Edouard Manet

  Memories, Light, Shadow

  "Portrait of Manet by himself and his contemporaries". Book edited by Pierre Courthion, p. 98, 1960.

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• God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

  Clarence Jordan

  God, Christian, Father

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.170, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Just take it from me," Donovan said. "Stay well clear of the warden. Some here think he's the devil. I don't, I don't believe in that religious talk, but I know evil when I see it. He's something rotten they dragged from the bowels of the earth, something they patched together from darkness and filth. He'll be the death of us all, every single one of us here in Furnace. Only question is when." "I know one thing," I added. "The warden certainly brings out peoples dramatic sides." Zee and Donovan both laughed through their noses.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.89, Faber & Faber

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• Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.

  Karla Faye Tucker

  Waiting, I Will Wait For You, Has Beens

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• If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

  Andrew Jackson

  Numbers, Car, Cigarette

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• Of course prostitutes have babies. Where do you think traffic wardens come from?

  Dave Dutton

  Baby, Thinking, Traffic

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• When you see the crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell hi that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.

  Scott Lynch

  Hands, Locks, Way

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• Is he your warden now too? You know I saw this story on the news last week about controlling, abusive teenage relationships and- "Okay!" I cut him off, and then shoved his arm. "Time for the werewolf to get out!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Teenage, Cutting, News

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

  Jim Butcher

  Dark, Mushrooms, Bullshit

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.48, Penguin

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• Ooh, big day in town for our park warden,” I said. “They’re even making you wear the uniform. Hayley’s mom will be happy. She thinks you look hot in it.” Dad turned as red as his hair. Mom’s laugh floated out from her studio. “Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Dad, Father

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

  Terry Goodkind

  Boundaries

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.542, RosettaBooks

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• You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Goes On, Shade

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1726, Penguin

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• Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau.

  Stanley Ho

  War, Government, Air

  "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.

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• There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

  Tom Lehrer

  Animal, Games, Two

  Song: The Hunting Song

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• Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Eye, Light, Fog

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Thinking, Persistence

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• I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, "Yes." So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.

  Malcolm X

  New York, Together, Inmates

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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