Wings Quotes · Page 32

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

— Henry Vaughan

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

— Joseph Campbell

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

— Alexander Pope

“How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings?”

— Sally Painter

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

— Nelly Sachs

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

— Gustave Flaubert

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

— Henry Adams

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the…

— Lotte Lehmann

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must…

— Denise Mina

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation…

— Bryant H. McGill

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings!…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I always keep my script in the wings - a hangover from my rep days when we had no prompter and, if…

— Sheila Hancock

Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time…

— F.B. Meyer

As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because…

— Paul Harvey

Love gives you wings. Icarus and the Challenger both had wings, and so did my first love letter, after I folded it…

— Anonymous

Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition.…

— Suzanne Collins

The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.…

— George Carlin

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like…

— Anonymous

One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how…

— Anson Dorrance

“When the weaver bird flies, nobody talks; when the busy bee flies, no one will make comments... But when a human being…

— Israelmore Ayivor

World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night.…

— Tanith Lee

Is this so-called [Republican Party] hate wing that is so angry at all the things that have - all the changes that…

— Howard Dean

Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet…

— Hector Berlioz

There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.

— Anonymous

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my…

— Don King

It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing...

— Gudrun Ensslin

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of…

— Brendon Urie

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

— Brian Andreas

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

— Anzia Yezierska

Bird without wings can't fly and man without hard work can't survive

— Mabor Maker Kulang

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

— Jo Grimond

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

— Sir John Davies

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

— Robert Bolt

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

— Edward Cocker

Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

— Thomas a Kempis