#captivity

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#china #figures #government #holding #innocent

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. ↗

— Willa Cather

#captivity #fox #happens #intelligence #like

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#federal #insanity #legislation #needed #stop

I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#aware #birth #captivity #getting #give

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#captivity #going #had #i #place

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#zoo #life

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#captivity #freedom #marriage #married-life #matrimony

There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such favourite pets and brings upon them so many sorrows. ...Men will buy them ... and carry them off to all quarters of the native town, intending, I doubt not, to treat them kindly; but "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel", and confinement in a solitary cell, the discipline with which we reform hardened criminals, is misery enough to a bird with an active mind, without the superadded horrors of ... life in a tin case, hung from a nail in the wall of a dark shop... Why does the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals never look into the woes of parrots? ... However happy you make her captivity, imagination will carry her at times to the green field and blue sky, and she fancies herself somewhere near the sun, heading a long file of exultant companions in swift career through the whistling air. Then she opens her mouth and rings out a wild salute to all parrots in the far world below her. ↗

— E.H. Aitken

#captivity #intelligence #parrots #imagination

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#dancing #i #like #little #look

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way. ↗

— Christine McVie

#angeles #anywhere #around #being #captivity