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- Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Marilyn Manson
- Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their… — Maria Edgeworth
- Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and… — 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