- Positive
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Prison Quotes
Most Famous Prison Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best prison quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Prison Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Punishment
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
- Deregulated
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
- God
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
- Pilot
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.
- Nov 07, 2020
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.
- Impossible
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
- Getting
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
- Mass
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.
- Father
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don't get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time.
- Norway
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
- Brother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've got one younger brother who can do prison like his breakfast, but I'm not built for it.
- Boat
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.
- Maybe
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If I hadn't been in prison, maybe I wouldn't have gotten all those prison roles.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.
- Time
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.
- Fellow Creatures
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
- He
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
- Football
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.
- Problems
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.
- Father
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
- Royal
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.
- End
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.
- Lie
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.
- Escaping
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
- Most
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
- Felony
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.
- Reality
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?
- Remember
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If Anglo feels it hasn't done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want to finish it off by putting me in prison, then so be it - I'll accept that.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.
- I Am
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.
- Night
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
- Own
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever want to go back to prison.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew up like that.
- Hair
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.
- End
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was driving to school at Reseda High School - I was a junior, and it was early 1956. I had a '49 Ford. I was listening to the country station, and 'Folsom Prison Blues' comes on... It didn't sound like the stuff I was hearing on the pop stations.
- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
- Nov 07, 2020
I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.
- Police
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
- My Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.
- God
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe God talks to us in mysterious ways. I knew if I did not pay attention to His message, I was going to do life in prison, or I was going to end up dead.
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.
- Joke
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
- Out
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.
- Enough
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.
- Living
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
- Making
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
After I met Ajay Bhuyan, we thought of making the English TV show 'Prison Break' as a Telugu film. Ajay put it all down, but somehow, we felt it would not work. Then 'Dhada' emerged.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.
- Business
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.
- Everyone
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal with the ensuing tsunami of litigation.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy, or the equivalent of jaywalking - arrested and then sent to prison and then leased to plantations.
- Center
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
- Each Individual
- |
- Nov 07, 2020