Their Wings Quotes

66 quotes by 62 authors

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is… — John C. Wright
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of… — Leonardo da Vinci
The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul. — Edward Burne-Jones
Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire-- — Nelly Sachs
Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make… — Marilyn Manson
Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly… — Maria Edgeworth
Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the… — Heinrich Harrer
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. — Antonio Porchia
Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto. — Andrea Jung
Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their… — Dalai Lama
Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings.… — Anatoli Boukreev
Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We… — Rose Fyleman
She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all… — John Milton
Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among… — Suzy Kassem
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. — Ray Bradbury
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings. — Henning Mankell

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