Wing Quotes

557 quotes by 453 authors

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. — Martial
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great… — William Shakespeare
A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing. — William Blake
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of… — John Burroughs
Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie… — George Herbert
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix. — Robert Southey
Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little… — William Allingham
The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. — Coventry Patmore
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks… — Charles Churchill
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress. — Barbra Streisand
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly. — Ivan Pavlov
In these home affairs things I think occasionally it's the duty of politicians on both sides to turn round to the tabloids and right-wing newspapers… — Kenneth Clarke
The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it… — Craig Mundie
I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside… — David Lee
Anybody who thinks there`s not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg. — Richard Belzer
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing. — Emily Dickinson
Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by… — Rachel Carson
The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse,… — John Muir
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all… — Erasmus Darwin

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