Quotes About Cage
I want to tell them, stay in the cage. There are better things than freedom. There are worse things than living a long bored life in some stranger's house and then dying and going to canary heaven.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
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The past was safe in its cage. Why not have a look?
~ Vladimir Nabokov
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Sara lay back on the cold rock floor and beckoned for him."I'll stay in here until you're starving," she said passionately,"until you understand you can trust me,that I give to you unconditionally,out of the purest love.I'll stay here until this cage becomes a place of peace,of pleasure-not torment."Her eyebrow lifted."I will stay in here until you can't resist me.
~ Laura Wright
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This is the greatest mystery of all: even a bird can be a slave, but even in its cage, it sings.
~ James Hynes
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The hamster called. He wants his home back.
~ James Patterson
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Whatever steps in the cage against me, I will fight, because I have the belt, I'm No. 1 on the planet, and I want to keep staying here.
~ Amanda Nunes
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If you have the mentality that Jon Jones has when he steps into the cage, no one will beat you on the mat.
~ Corey Anderson
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If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open?
~ Olive Schreiner
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There was a curse. It lay on all of us, though we didn't know it. Anyway Lacau didn't. Standing there, reading the tomb seal out loud to me in my cage, he didn't have a clue who the warning was meant for. And the Sandalman, standing on the black ridge watching the bodies burn, had no idea he had already fallen victim to it.
~ Connie Willis
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The Fairy looked at the broken glass around her feet. Her shattered cage. And the one who'd put her in it was far, far away. But, no, she had caged herself.
~ Cornelia Funke
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Niemand au?er den Ratsmidgliedern, ihre Sekretären, Ehefrauen, den Minenarbeitern, die die Gruft gefunden haben...' Jacob hob den Zwerg in den Käfig. 'Ich wurde mich nicht darauf verlassen, dass euer Geheimnis sicher ist.
~ Cornelia Funke
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Love! I detest the very sound of the word. What has it ever meant to me, I should like to know, in this—this cage? Scarcely a streak of gilding on the bars
~ Walter de La Mare
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After lunch they looked through some stuff in the garage and found a long narrow cage suitable for Joann to travel in. It had once served as a humane catch-'em-alive mink trap, and in fact no mink had ever entered it, such was its humanity.
~ Charles Portis
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Nationalism is a self-constructed cage in which family members can huddle in safety when they're not growling and barking at someone outside the cage.
~ Charles Simic
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Life is easy when you're a hamster," I said to Ranger.
~ Janet Evanovich
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Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
~ Timothy Spall
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We must have a creature made of Darkness to break through the cage of Darkenss that imprisons your grandmother, Thanatos said. That creature is me. Aurox stepped forward. Oh, for shit's sake! We are absolutely fucked! Aphrodite said. Sadly I had to agree with her.
~ P.C. Cast
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The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person." He
~ Daniel Keyes
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The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person.
~ Daniel Keys
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They made an ingenuous and disorganized effort to escape from captivity but ultimately failed, because they were unable to find the bars of the cage. If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual.
~ Daniel Quinn
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Cage him with eternal love.. Pamper him with affection… Let your love envelope him.. Give him freedom.. He won't fly away like a caged bird that fly away when the doors are open..
~ Nikku Francis Pallath
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Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
~ Emily Dickinson
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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
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