Quotes with prison-house

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  • Eugène Ionesco There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Homer There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bud Grant There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Huey Newton There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
    To Die for the People (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Billy Parish There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and 'Chain yourself to the White House.'
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Bruno Schulz Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
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  • Charles Dickens They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bud Abbott They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Bhagat Singh Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Barbara Bush Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Bow Wow To the world, I'm Bow Wow. When I leave here and I go to L.A., and I go to my daughter's house and I sit with her, I feel like Shad. I'm not Bow; I'm 'Daddy.' It's, like, the illest feeling in the world. I feel like I'm away from everything.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Queen Elizabeth II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are wall-eyed.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Boris Johnson Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
    Telegraph Column, Oct 21, 2008, endorsing Barack Obama
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Tennessee Williams We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Bill Bruford We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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