Jail Bird Quotes & Sayings

Picasso said he'd paint with his own wet tongue
on the dusty floor of a jail cell if he had to.
We have to create.
It is the only thing louder than destruction.
It's the only chance the bard are gonna break,
our hands full of color
reaching towards the sky,
a brush stroke in the dark.
It is not too late.
That starry night
is not yet dry. — Andrea Gibson

The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better. — Osvaldo Ardiles

I make for my goal, I follow my course; over the loitering and tardy will I leap. Thus let my on-going be their down-going! — Friedrich Nietzsche

She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers. — Rosamunde Pilcher

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. — Don DeLillo

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. — Vaclav Havel

A man comes walking north. He carries a sack, the first sack, containing provisions for the road and some implements. The man is strong and rough-hewn, with a red lion beard and little scars on face and hands, sites of old wounds
were they gotten at work or in a fight? Maybe he has been in jail and wants to go into hiding, or perhaps he is a philosopher looking for peace; in any case, here he comes, a human being in the midst of this immense solitude. He walks and walks, in a silence broken by neither bird nor beast. — Knut Hamsun

God wants the simplicity and accessibility of Jesus Christ to be your main quality — Sunday Adelaja

Live life with grace, there is no return from the grave. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. — Annie Leibovitz

I frowned. Evidently, Sangris wasn't a cat who could shape-shift. It was more difficult than that. He was a nothing who occasionally pretended to be a cat. "I wish I could know what it's like for myself, that's all," I said. I felt rather the way a jail inmate would if a bird flew up and shouted through her window bars: This freedom thing? Yeah, not so great. — Rinsai Rossetti

The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals. — Ashley Wagner

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. — Robert Quillen

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free. — Teresa Mummert

One Pain, Hundred Reliefs! — Hemdiva Dev

When a child is born in a jail and during their life all they know is the jail they were born into, the idea of freedom becomes so terrifying that they ridicule the very thought of being free, as a clinical illness. It is nothing like the song that a caged bird sings. — Alejandro C. Estrada

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt. — Geraldine Brooks

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. — Aldous Huxley

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement. — Todd Akin