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  • I know why the caged bird sings. -- Maya Angelou
  • I know what the caged bird feels, alas! -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams. -- Maya Angelou
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'. -- Sonya Hartnett
  • Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • 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. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song. -- Alice Hoffman
  • Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks. -- Randolph Sinks Foster
  • I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings! -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • A forest bird never wants a cage. -- Henrik Ibsen
  • Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them. -- Elsa Peretti
  • Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. -- Spiro T. Agnew
  • Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. -- Nicolas Cage
  • Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts. -- Klaus Kinski
  • 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. -- Sakya Pandita
  • Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. -- Robert Burton
  • Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. -- Robert Burton
  • I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies. -- Kyle Dunnigan
  • Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only! -- Emily Dickinson
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