Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.
New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.
Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.
The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.
We all have our routines," he said softly. "But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.
Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.
Palestinians caged up like animals.
I know why the caged bird sings.
We are most artistically caged.
The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem. . . I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.
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.
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
