Cages Quotes

• We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

  George Lucas

  Doors, Wide

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• Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

  John Cage

  Finding Yourself

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• God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

  Jacques Deval

  Life, Funny Love, Men

  "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.

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• Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Reality, Imagination

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• The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

  Virginia Woolf

  Confidence, Love Yourself, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2010). “Monday or Tuesday: And Other Short Stories”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  Ray Bradbury

  Insanity, Bipolar, Crazy People

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  Axel Munthe

  Inspirational, Freedom, Animal

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Wall, Recovery, Wings

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Way

  "Fictional character: Captain Christopher Pike". "Star Trek", TV Series (1966–1969). "The Cage", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• The bars on our cage are of our own making.

  Jessie Burton

  Bars

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• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  Harry Belafonte

  Music, Song, Singers

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• A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.

  Rumi

  Love, Attitude, Heart

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• It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

  Jordan Dane

  Live Life, Dies

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• How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

  William Blake

  Bird, Joy, Born

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.82, Routledge

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• The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Life, Freedom

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• You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

  Rumi

  Wings

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• Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

  John Fowles

  Trying, Environment

  John Fowles (2010). “Wormholes”, p.316, Random House

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• Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

  Aldous Huxley

  Liberty, World, Gilded

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• Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

  Andre Benjamin

  Nostalgia, Sometimes

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• A forest bird never wants a cage.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Bird, Want

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Jens Arup (1998). “Four Major Plays”, p.339, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

  David R. Brower

  World, Wilderness, Wildness

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• Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Life Is, Natural

  Getting Married (1911) preface "Hearth and Home"

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• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Art, Majority Rule

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• The only good cage is an empty cage.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Empty

  Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.368, Pan Macmillan

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• To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

  Robert Fulghum

  Humanity, Bars, Human Nature

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.261, Ballantine Books

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