Quotes & Sayings About Caged Birds

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful
but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. — John Webster

Caged birds still sing beautiful symphonies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

some birds aren't ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright.... — Stephen King

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

Two more [birds added to her cage]. I call them the Wards in Jarndyce. They are caged up with all the others. With Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach!? - - - Miss Flite to Esther. [I thought a the last two a bit strange until I looked and saw the old definitions of gammon (as being double talk or obfuscation) and spinach (as being a spurious and unwanted growth). How appropriately summarized the situation! — Charles Dickens

I was caged by him like a bird with clipped wings. I could flutter but I couldn't escape though I'm not certain I'd want to even if I could. — Paloma Beck

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

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free ... and humans will see ... — K. Hari Kumar

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

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. — Stephen King

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly. — Thorolf Rafto

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. — Stephen King

The Harivansa says, "An abode without birds is like a meat without seasoning." Such was not my abode, for I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them. — Henry David Thoreau