Clint Smith Quotes

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

My cage has many rooms.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

You'll never know how sweet freedom can be unless you've lost it for eight and a half years.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

I really like cages.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that's when it dies.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.