„So she had a box. Lots of people have boxes. They keep things in them. It's a growing trend, I hear.“

„Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.“

—  Kelley Armstrong Canadian writer 1968

Source: Spell Bound

„… a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.“

—  E. Lockhart, book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

„After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.“

—  Clive James Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist 1939 - 2019

Source: Memoirs, May Week Was in June (1990), p. 15

„I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.“

—  Sugar Ray Leonard American boxer 1956

Sugar Ray Leonard on his first taste of boxinghttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20061006/ai_n16774982/pg_2

„When I was young, I was very energetic and strong – just too hyperactive. So when I went to the boxing club, everything seemed normal to me. I enjoyed it, I liked punching things, hitting the boxing bag, fighting people in the boxing ring and in school I was naughty as well; but when I started boxing, I totally changed everything – you know, my whole life changed, I was good, I didn’t misbehave, I was always behaving in school. The teacher was happy with my behaviour.“

—  Amir Khan (boxer) British boxer 1986

Boxing as a schoolkid during childhood, Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVM9mW7gglI&feature=channel (Aik Din Geo Kay Sath), GEO News. (September 2009)

„I box in yellow Gox box socks.“

—  Dr. Seuss, book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

„The Moschino bra you bought me last Christmas
Put it in the box, put it in the box
Frank's in there and I don't care
Put it in the box, put it in the box,
Now take it, Take the box.“

—  Amy Winehouse English singer and songwriter 1983 - 2011

Take The Box
Song lyrics, Frank (2003)

„They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.“

—  Nassim Nicholas Taleb, book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 31

„I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box…“

—  Rick Riordan American writer 1964

„Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box“

—  Twyla Tharp American choreographer 1941

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

„A simple box is really a complicated thing.“

—  Donald Judd artist 1928 - 1994

Box of delights http://www.newstatesman.com/node/147350, NewStatesman.com, 23 February 2004
Attributed from posthumous publications

„I've made a lot of box art do a lot of horrible things over the years in the name of critique. SOPA could stop my dirty foreigner ways.“

—  Ben Croshaw English video game journalist 1983

18 January 2012
Twitter

„If the troubles from environmentalists cannot be solved in the jury box or at the ballot box, perhaps the cartridge box should be used.“

—  James G. Watt United States Secretary of the Interior 1938

As quoted in "The Earth's Storm Troopers", Phoenix New Times (7 August 1991)
1990s

„It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.“

—  Graham Greene, book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

„A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.“

—  Frederick Douglass American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818 - 1895

Speech http://books.google.ca/books?id=zFclDyk2LTEC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false (15 November 1867).
1860s

„The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery.
“What is it?” she whispered.
“It’s a box,” he whispered back.
“What kind of box?”
“A wooden one.”
She gave him a look.“

—  Derek Landy Irish children's writer 1974

Source: Death Bringer

„The sight of the black box stunned the gathering into a silence more deep than before. Only members of The Vigils and their victims had seen it. In the garish stadium light, the box was revealed as worn and threadbare, a small wooden container that might have been a discarded jewelry box. And yet it was a legend in the school.“

—  Robert Cormier, book The Chocolate War

Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 245

„[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.“

—  Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

"The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/18/onion.html?page=4
In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with <code>xscreensaver</code>.
Other

„Eliminate all restrictions that confine learners to sitting still in boxes inside of boxes.“

—  Neil Postman American writer and academic 1931 - 2003

Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Context: If every college teacher taught his courses in the manner we have suggested, there would be no needs for a methods course. Every course would be a course in methods of learning and, therefore, in methods of teaching. For example, a "literature" course would be a course in the process of learning how to read. A history course would be a course in the process of learning how to do history. And so on. But this is the most farfetched possibility of all since college teachers, generally speaking, are more fixated on the Trivia game, than any group of teachers in the educational hierarchy. Thus we are left with the hope that, if methods courses could be redesigned to be model learning environments, the educational revolution might begin. In other words, it will begin as soon as there are enough young teachers who sufficiently despise the crippling environments they are employed to supervise to want to subvert them. The revolution will begin to be visible when such teachers take the following steps (many students who have been through the course we have described do not regard these as "impractical"): 1. Eliminate all conventional "tests" and "testing." 2. Eliminate all "courses." 3. Eliminate all "requirements." 4. Eliminate all full time administrators and administrations. 5. Eliminate all restrictions that confine learners to sitting still in boxes inside of boxes.... the conditions we want to eliminate... happen to be the sources of the most common obstacles to learning. We have largely trapped ourselves in our schools into expending almost all of our energies and resources in the direction of preserving patterns and procedures that make no sense even in their own terms. They simply do not produce the results that are claimed as their justification in the first place — quite the contrary. If it is practical to persist in subsidizing at an ever-increasing social cost a system which condemns our youth to ten or 12 or 16 years of servitude in a totalitarian environment ostensibly for the purpose of training them to be fully functioning, self-renewing citizens of democracy, then we are vulnerable to whatever criticisms that can be leveled.