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Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly. -- Thorolf Rafto
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. -- Tennessee Williams
I felt caged by my childhood. -- Christina Aguilera
When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why. -- Scott Baio
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. -- Dennis Rodman
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. -- James Chiles
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. -- Germaine Greer
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy. -- Bjork
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. -- Jean Harris
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. -- Angelina Jolie
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. -- K. A. Applegate
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. -- Andy Goldsworthy
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. -- Alice Waters
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. -- Jack Carroll
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. -- Jim Carrey
Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby. -- Debbie Ford
A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. -- Abraham Lincoln
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. -- Angelina Jolie
We are most artistically caged. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Palestinians caged up like animals. -- Chuck Hagel
I know why the caged bird sings. -- Maya Angelou
A caged canary is safe but not free. -- Walter E. Williams
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde. -- Gordon Merrick
The horror of being caged has lost its thrill. -- Philip Roth
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams. -- Maya Angelou
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars. -- Johnny Cash
Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey. -- Andy Zaltzman
Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged. -- Veronica Roth
Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child? -- Evangeline Booth
I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies. -- Omega Maverick
When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why -- Scott Baio
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together. -- Iris Murdoch
Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better. -- Peter V. Brett
We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free. -- Tupac Shakur
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying. -- Isobelle Carmody
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. -- Nadine Gordimer
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. -- Alain de Botton
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. -- Stephen King
I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free. -- Arthur Darvill
It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them. -- Erin Morgenstern
Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged...and forgiveness destroys the cage. -- Sanjo Jendayi
The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage. -- Charles Spurgeon
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. -- Bjork
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it. -- Morgan Freeman
As for politics, Iâ??m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Canâ??t stand caged animals. People must be free. -- Charlie Chaplin
The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage. -- Charles Spurgeon
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. -- Chuck Baldwin
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. -- Raghad Hussein
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. -- Rachel Caine
...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
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. -- Maya Angelou
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
As our bodies are mostly made of water, I'd rather be hungry than thirsty. And as love is mostly made up of sugar water, I'd rather be a hummingbird caged in your heart. -- Jarod Kintz
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. -- James A. Baldwin
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. -- Wyndham Lewis
Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve. -- Bruce Lee
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves. -- Florence Ellinwood Allen
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. -- Djuna Barnes
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! -- Will Rogers
I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. "You're lying to me. -- C.N. Faust
I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense. -- Assata Shakur

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