Their Wings Quotes
66 Their Wings quotes by 59 unique authors
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Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself…
— Gail Carriger
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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier…
— Galileo Galilei
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost…
— Jack Welch
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Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you…
— Chuck Yeager
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to…
— Ellen Hopkins
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While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
— Margaret Atwood
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch…
— Kazuya Minekura
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Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it…
— Vera Nazarian
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they…
— Rumi
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Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we…
— Gerry Spence
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For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are…
— Albert Schweitzer
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...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place,…
— Laini Taylor
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I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a…
— Laini Taylor
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Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the…
— Susanna Kearsley
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There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.
— Mary E. Pearson
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I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies…
— Og Mandino
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On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the…
— Shirley Jackson
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Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their…
— Laini Taylor
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Love is basically like leaches .... They suck until they cant get enough of you. Until you find a catapillar that will turn into the…
— Milan Kundera
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I sit and wait does an angel contemplate my fate and do they know the places Where we go when we're grey and old 'cos…
— Jessica Simpson
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