Top 1200 Prison Cells Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

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

Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.

Filesharing in Sweden can't get you into prison, so there's nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive.

It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

I've stayed in the best hotels in the world, but you could put me in prison, and I'd still have fun.

I watch box sets. I worked my way through 'Breaking Bad' and 'Prison Break.'

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like.

Studies in the emerging field of cellular bioenergetics, a branch of biochemistry concerned with how energy flows through living systems, suggest that molecules from orchids might be able to repair decaying mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, in humans.

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.