Top 98 Caged Quotes & Sayings

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.

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!

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

My biggest influence is Chris Rock. His physicality is like a caged tiger - pacing the stage - how he walks back and forth.

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Yes, though trained as an engineer, I shifted to education as I realized that the system needed to be changed; I saw so many of the bright minds caged.

I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!

Palestinians caged up like animals.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.

I felt caged by my childhood.

I know why the caged bird sings.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.

Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child?

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

Anyone who lives with a dog, as I do, knows that dogs are thinking, feeling individuals who do not deserve to be caged, scared and used as disposable test tubes with tails.

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

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.

Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.

...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.

We are most artistically caged.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

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 hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

One of the most famous poems I know by Maya Angelou is not 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' it's the other one, 'Still I Rise.'

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

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.