A Quote by Doris Roberts

In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog. — © Doris Roberts
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.
Behind bars, everyone's an inmate. Everybody has their skeletons; everybody has their story.
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.
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit
I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.
So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.
What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.
Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.
They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.
I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.
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