The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!
Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.
Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
A caged canary is safe but not free.
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.
When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.
Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.
I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.
I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.
The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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