Catherine Fisher Quotes

You can keep a person locked up too long.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

I really don't like being in jail.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

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

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.

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.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

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.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.