Top 1200 Prison Population Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out a third of the population. There are angels that come down and wipe out a third of the population and then another angel will come down and wipe out a third of all the animals living in the sea and another angel will come down and wipe out all the vegetation on the land. They are some vengeful individules, in Revelations, the angels. There is a lot of destructive capacity in an angel's being.

I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.

I myself spent some time in prison, so I know the type of trajectory that a criminal offense can put on someone's life.

The lowest point for me was ending up in prison after a violent event. I realised I was way out of my depth.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Restoring the right to vote to individuals who have served their term in prison is also a common-sense public safety measure.

In the first quarter of 2015, it is necessary to explain to the population and business what fields will be supported by the state

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.

Backstage at the Apollo isn't a fun place to be. It's a bit like a prison: small rooms filled with warm Diet Coke.

It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

Listen, the conditions in prison as a whole - you're not sleeping in a comfortable bed, you're not eating good food, and this is for long periods of time.

I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Like most people who go to prison for an unfair thing, we become more persuaded in our own beliefs.

There's an actor in the TV show 'Prison Break,' Robert Knepper, who plays a violent sociopath, and he's just incredible in that role.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.

We want to find a permanent solution to the DACA population, not a continual three-year renewal period.

I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do.

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.