Wings Quotes

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A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water — Kate Chopin
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire-- — Nelly Sachs
Fear can give you urgent wings. — Margaret Mahy
While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory… — Amy Goodman
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as… — Roger Martin
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
Most birds were created to fly.Â Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on… — William P. Young
The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama… — Cornel West
Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make… — Gerrit W. Gong
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas ibn Firnas
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only… — Roger Bacon
It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and they… — Jerome Lalande
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
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and… — Oliver Stewart
Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly… — Charles Lindbergh
The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same — Brian Andreas
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. — Boris Pasternak
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes… — Ally Condie
Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the… — Donella Meadows

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