Top 112 Cages Quotes & Sayings

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

On the road, we're hitting in the cages during our normal batting practice for our position players.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

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

Back in the day, I came up with the expression "Same Animal - Different Cages" to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I've just broadened the meaning of that.

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

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

I really like cages.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.

Do you know why animals die in cages? Their soul dies.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.

At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

Seeing the B-52s dropped from planes, watching the burning of civilians with Agent Orange, reading about the incarceration of Vietnamese militants in cages only big enough for tigers made me furious.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

We're willing to spend countless dollars putting people who need help in cages, and then when they get out we say you can't have a job, and you can't have housing, and because you don't have either, we're going to take your kids, too.

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road.

I like to rattle cages.

Friends don’t build cages for each other.

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.

In the '70s and the '80s, what wrestlers were doing back then, yes, they're taking bumps, and they're busting up their bodies and things like that, but now, we got these cages: they're falling off.

Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them.

I have too many guys that count on me as a coach so in 2009 you're going to see me in a lot of cages and rings but I'll only be in them to corner my fighters.

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

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

Scottish football has always been about Celtic and Rangers, but we've rattled some cages and that's been good. The more competition they have, the better for Scotland as a whole.

Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages.