Quotes & Sayings About Bird Cages

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open. — Andre Maurois

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird. — Tori Amos

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. — Spiro T. Agnew

A poem is a windy city, has broad shoulders
and insistent industry,
barrels into your brain, sticking
its steam-filled, swarmy head
into the delicate, empty bird cages
propped in the rooms of your imagination.
A poem can be rude, downright ignorant
of what you had been thinking about
and holding onto for too much of the day.
More than a city, a poem pushes its hemispheres
against your thoughts, knocking them out
of the windows of your ears.
Every good poem screams, 'Read me
because you're going to die someday! — B.J. Ward

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams. — Anais Nin

The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage. — Will Cuppy

Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild. — William Butler Yeats

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings. — Elton John

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages. — Dean Young

A bird in a cage is not half a bird. — Henry Ward Beecher

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that. — Paulo Coelho

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages ... — Isak Dinesen

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks. — Thomas Beecham

Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much. — Priscilla Welch

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm. — Jonathan Safran Foer

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. — Rumi

There are all these relationships that are like cookie cutter shapes; identical and repetitive. Then there are all these relationships that aren't even relationships! Just facades for show and tell. But every once and a while, you'll see this bird breaking out of this cage and it's so weird and it's so obscure and you've hardly ever seen it before so you don't even know at first if you should name it Ugly or Beautiful! Relationships, stories of love, that just shatter the walls around the mind. They made it. They broke through. Like Ugly-Beautiful birds bursting forth from rusty cages! And then suddenly you stop and you think to yourself, "Maybe love really is real. — C. JoyBell C.

Strange as it may seem - or perhaps it does not seem so strange - they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself. — Haruki Murakami

She reminded Juliet of the parrot the shopkeeper owned. Both the woman and bird belonged in cages, preferably the same cage, so the bird could poop on all that velvet and lace. — Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. — Pierre Charron

Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them. — Elsa Peretti

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? — William Blake