Wings Quotes

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The man who has no imagination has no wings. — Muhammad Ali
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. — Miguel de Cervantes
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on… — Lydia M. Child
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. — William J. Clinton
My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land… — Tori Amos
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly. — Zeenat Aman
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy… — F B Meyer
True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. — Swami Paramananda
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out — William Shakespeare
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front… — Foster Hewitt

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