Poppy Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

My cage has many rooms.

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?

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

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

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

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

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

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

The goate must browse where she is tyed.

To arrive is to be in prison.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

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.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Tether even a roasted chicken.

One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!