Captivity quotes
45 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one."
"The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity."
"So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity."
"Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them."
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"I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy."
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable."
"We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities."
"Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity"
"Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful."
"It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition."
