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  • Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

    Home   Cages   Life Is  
    Getting Married (1911) preface "Hearth and Home"
  • Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

    Wall   Angel   Iron  
  • Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.220, Modern Library
  • 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.

    Night   Animal   Guy  
  • 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.

    Mom   Dad   Evil  
    Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.572, Penguin
  • That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

    Laughter   Cry   Happened  
  • The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

    Heart   Space   Soul  
  • The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

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

    Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.22, Harper Collins
  • Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

    Change   Happiness   Mean  
  • Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.

    Animal   Men   Lakes  
  • 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.

    Struggle   Bird   Doe  
  • There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

    Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin
  • New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

    New York   Men   Water  
    Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.100, Courier Dover Publications
  • My body cheerfully informed me that he felt really good pressed against me like that, all hard muscles and smooth contours and ominous bulges. My body liked the air of barely leashed strength and caged mayhem he was giving off. My body thought he smelled really good, like heat and coffee and electricity. My body was going to get me killed.

    Coffee   Air   Giving  
    Karen Chance (2013). “Tempt the Stars: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.44, Penguin
  • Chad had prowled over to her, and she felt good caged in between those powerful arms, but when he kissed her flushed forehead and then the tip of her nose, she lost a little of herself forever.

  • Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

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

    Reality   Waiting   Beast  
  • A forest bird never wants a cage.

    Freedom   Bird   Want  
    Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Jens Arup (1998). “Four Major Plays”, p.339, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child?

  • 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.

    Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press
  • Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

  • The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.

  • Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

    School   Ignorant   Gone  
    Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House
  • Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.

    Running   Sweat   Hair  
  • ...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.

    Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr
  • 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.

    Book   Bird   Rooms  
    Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.14, editionNEXT.com
  • A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

    "Auguries of Innocence" l. 5 (ca. 1803)
  • The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

    Zoos   Eagles   Prison  
    Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Get a Life”, p.159, A&C Black
  • I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library
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