Patricia Briggs Quotes

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

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

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

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

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

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

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.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

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.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

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.

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

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

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