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Prison Quotes

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

People Me Prison Sometimes Meet

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

Chuck Palahniuk

Me Prison Kind Always System Fans

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

People Prison Think Problem Trying

Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Looking Prison Wish Wrong See Saw

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Mind World Prison Never Existed

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

Anthony Horowitz

Children Justice People Youth Prison

I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.

Prison End Always Up Going Get

You all must realize that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others - hundreds who languished in prison and died. Many unsung and unknown heroes of the struggle.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Struggle Man Prison You Heroes Must

When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.

Great Style Me Prison Thinking Way

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Death Prison Think Easy You Look

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

Money Society Prison Monkey Kids

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

Time Prison India Three Royal Years

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Love Lie Government I Am Prison Die

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

Children Woman Mom Prison Bad She

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

Life Prison Party Up Incarceration

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

Sherri Shepherd

Family I Am Me Prison Giving You

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Son Walls Me World Prison Want

It was good to get out of prison and home to the family.

Family Good Home Prison Out Get

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

Life Prison End You Why See

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

Lawyer Prison Clients My Own Fault

When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

People Prison Political Injustice

I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.

Richard Linklater

Crazy Prison Bad Up Town Main

I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I can send them to prison.

People Prison Think I Can Street

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.

People Prison Care Parent System

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