Prisoner Quotations

I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.

My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

If the king refuses the constitution, I shall oppose him; if he accepts it, I shall defend him; and the day on which he gave himself up as my prisoner secured me more fully to his service than if he had promised me half his kingdom.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

We're grateful to have a decision at last that keeping prisoner identities secret is against the public policy and the law of this country.

When three guards entered the cell to escort the prisoner to the infirmary, three inmates opened fire with .38-caliber revolvers.

Man is a prisoner of his senses as long as these two keep him under guard.

Scott Parkin is effectively Australia's first genuine political prisoner

No one likes to let people out of jail early, ... Every prisoner should have to serve out their full sentence.

Money would be taken away from the Department of Defense to fund programs such as a Peace Academy and prisoner rehabilitation, ... The creation of a Department of Peace is a nave and unreasonable approach to dealing with the problems of the 21st century, including international terrorism.

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

If we don't rein in prisoner abuse, we're going to lose the war, but if we don't rein in legal abuse by prisoners, we're going undermine our ability to protect ourselves,

I have called for an investigation on that. We are going to find out, first of all, how the guards are behaving. Those responsible for the deportation of Zhang may be charged with infidelity in the custody of a prisoner and dereliction of duty,

But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism. Between 1861 and 1865, the government of the United States took tens of thousands of American citizens prisoner and detained them for years without letting any one of them see a lawyer.

Be an explorer...read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play...do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.

I felt like a prisoner sometimes, being in essentially what is a small town in the middle of farmland,

I think it's a humanitarian gesture on the part of the Canadian government and we now hope our government will continue the process of prisoner releases. Right now, 110 people have been released, which means that the number of political prisoners in Cuba is diminishing.

That cannot be tolerated, ... He violated our rules of procedures. I consider it the most serious violation of rule and order to place a prisoner in your custody and not inform the dispatcher. You put that person in a vulnerable position.

Jonathan more than qualifies on all levels for Prisoner of Zion status. It's time for the Israeli government to actually do something positive to bring my husband home.

Most assaults on officers occur when a prisoner is being transported or moved about the building for questioning. Once a prisoner is in the holding area, they stay here. If a detective or officer has to interview one of them, it's done here.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking.

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

We will definitely extradite him back once hes healed up from his injuries and dealt with his charges there. Hes still an escaped prisoner from our area.

There has never been a time in our military history where an enemy combatant or prisoner of war has been allowed access to federal court to bring lawsuits against the people they are fighting,

While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world events, isolated and tucked safely away in a continental cocoon.

We spend more to keep a prisoner behind bars each year than it would cost to send them to Harvard Law School.

The prisoner was not injured, so I believe I did nothing wrong.

The prisoner releases are a difficult aspect of the situation.

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The prisoner handling and detainment process will be closely examined during a thorough and independent investigation.

The prisoner died on his way to the hospital.

People fear that if he cannot free himself from the Aristide base, he might become a prisoner of the very violent methods of that base.

After all, 76-year-old Robert Larson has not committed an offense in at least 18 years, has been through extensive treatment at a renowned treatment facility and has been a model prisoner for five years.

AP has been fighting for this information since the fall of 2004. We're grateful to have a decision at last that keeping prisoner identities secret is against the public policy and the law of this country.

a prisoner in a cage. He has a cup he is rattling against the bars, but he is still in his cage.

A (Yugoslav army) prisoner had reported, for example, that seven people had deserted from his platoon,

The U.S. takes more care killing dogs than people. Just because a prisoner may have killed without care or conscience does not mean that the state should follow suit.

Although I do not feel like a prisoner in my home, there are times I think twice about if I am going to walk to a neighbor's down the street or if we are going to drive.

It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?

Taylor is not a prisoner in Nigeria ... The situation is that as of March 25 she (the Liberian President) is free to come and take President Taylor into her custody.

It took all day long for the prisoner evacuation,

They did everything for him they could do, ... It seems like it's never about the victim. It's always about the prisoner and trying not to step on anyone's toes or do the wrong thing.

They will be assigned a job, and that's what they'll earn. Every prisoner must work, in the laundry, in the kitchen or somewhere else.

Inmates called out to the guards saying that a prisoner was ill and had to be taken to the infirmary. When three guards entered the cell to escort the prisoner to the infirmary, three inmates opened fire with .38 caliber revolvers.