Top 44 Locked Up Quotes

With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn’t think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was.

The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

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.

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

Those who misspent the government’s money, they should be arrested and locked up.

I keep my guns on one part of the house totally locked up, and I keep the ammunition in another part of the house.

I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, ‘Oh, I’ll never be locked up again. They’re not taking away my privacy.’ So I flipped a coin: heads – Miami, tails -California.

I got two kids. I ain’t tryna die. Or get locked up.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can’t imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.

If my mama and daddy would’ve stayed together, one of them would’ve been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

The gunner’s mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

To have a natural, healthy glow, you need to spend as much time as you can outside – if you stay locked up in an office, it can take a toll on your mind and body.

I got all the women and everything I want, but my brother is locked up. I can’t leave him behind.

The Khmer Rouge can’t destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.

Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our not having heeded their cry long ago. The shortsighted neglect that keeps us locked up in our outrage has also kept us from viable solutions.

Nobody wants to get locked up, although ‘locked up’ is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we’re talking about computers, he’s on. Otherwise, he’s a total recluse – he stays in the house and won’t leave, and I’m like that. If I’m not working, I’m locked up in my room.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn’t make for healthy relationships.

It must be a judge – never a politician – who decides whether someone is to be locked up.

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.

When you get locked up, you get locked out.

My IQ is 154. It was measured because my father was desperately hoping that they could determine if I had anything wrong psychologically so that I could be locked up the way one of his sisters had.

There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they’re going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us.

I can’t show, let alone share, my emotions. In fact, I’ve kept it all locked up within myself all my life. Yeah, it’s a problem, especially when it comes to relationships with the people close to me.

I don’t guess anybody likes the idea of being locked up.

I’ve been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for the course when you’re Black or brown in America.

I was 17 and out of school, living with my mom, starving, not eating, getting locked up, no focus, no guidance. When you ain’t got no guidance, you can’t do too much. But then I had my first son and started working. I got the right people around me.

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green… just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it… wanting to change this and fix that.

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

Sexuality has become much more fluid, and you no longer have to be locked up into a convenient compartment.

Everyone’s past is locked up in their recipes – the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That’s power.

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I’m not one who thinks that people should be locked up and thrown away the key.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

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.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.