Penitentiary Quotes

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Between, House, Choose

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe Ruth

Baseball, Either, Cemetery

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
Erykah Badu

Men, Black, Philosophy

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
William Graham Sumner

Men, Find, Living

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.
Suge Knight

But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.
Louis Stokes

Money, Through, Learned

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
Florence E. Allen

Truth, Judge, Honor

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.
Lee J. Cobb

Getting, Gesture

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
Cole Younger

Kindness, Grateful, While

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