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  • I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

    Night   Animal   Guy  
  • Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

    Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.22, Harper Collins
  • Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.

    Animal   Men   Lakes  
  • At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

    Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press
  • A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

    "Auguries of Innocence" l. 5 (ca. 1803)
  • The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

    Love   Life   Freedom  
  • Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

    Animal   Energy   Way  
    Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams
  • As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

    Charlie Chaplin, Kevin J. Hayes (2005). “Charlie Chaplin: Interviews”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I know why the caged bird sings.

    Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10
  • No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

    William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education
  • I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.

    Kids   Animal   Issues  
    "The Ritalin Racketeers and Their Chemical Lobotomies – Part I". Interview With Michael Savage, www.whale.to. March 29, 2000.
  • And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

    Running   Animal   Rocks  
    Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
  • We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.

    John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster
  • I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

    Courage   People   Lions  
  • He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. “Do you even love me?” he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. “I’ve said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I’ve never heard it from you.

    Eye   Mean   Animal  
  • God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

    Life   Funny Love   Men  
    "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.
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