Bird Cage Quotes & Sayings
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When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage. —
Rumi

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. —
Kahlil Gibran

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
Bird cage is nice only when it is empty! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

The poor child felt like a little bird that is placed in a glittering cage. —
Johanna Spyri

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below —
Jacob Grimm

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. —
Michel De Montaigne

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

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. —
Rachel Field

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead! —
Winston Churchill

I am the bird of the spiritual Garden,
not of this world of dust; for a few days,
they have a cage of my body made. —
Jalaluddin Rumi

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. —
J.R.R. Tolkien

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. —
Robert Green Ingersoll

True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar. —
Debasish Mridha

I look through the cage ... an absolute beauty of yours ... —
Ankur Kumar Shah

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate.
Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. —
Alice Hoffman

He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly. —
Colleen McCullough

Do you want to be kept in a little cage? No! Because it is a horror! But then why do you keep a little bird in a cage? —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again. —
Sona Charaipotra

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

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

Once written, a classic text is like a bird released from its cage. It develops a life of its own. Its "meaning" is not locked in. —
Harvey Cox

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

I am a cage, in search of a bird. —
Franz Kafka

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

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. —
Arthur J. Lamb

A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out. —
Samuel Johnson

More than the aspirations of an innocuous bird inside a cage, its the story of the cage that fascinates. —
Ashutosh Gupta

A forest bird never wants a cage. —
Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is like a bird. If it chooses
to sit on your roof, you cannot capture it and put it in a cage. —
Farin Powell

I'm a cage, in search of a bird. —
Franz Kafka

And I wake, in the cage of my bones,
on the same cold ground. —
John Burnside

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

The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage. —
Rumi

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

Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely. —
William Shakespeare

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. —
Sharon Creech

He who frees a bird from its cage is surely a holy person! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded
bird cage. —
Marilyn Monroe

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame —
Aimee Mann

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut? —
Olive Schreiner

A loan is the scissors of friendship.
A man's own tongue may cut his throat.
The cage has no value without the bird. —
Idries Shah

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