Caged Birds – Quotes

And when you had

And when you had made sure of the poor little fool, said my aunt – God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won’t go in a hurry – because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin … Read more

Islam was like a

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I wouldn’t steal anything

I wouldn’t steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I’d steal a caged bird and set it free. Arthur Darvill

Tell me why the

Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks. Randolph Sinks Foster

I have read in

I have read in books that we are called ‘caged birds’. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.
Rabindranath Tagore