Wings Quotes
1815 quotes by 1208 authors
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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
— Marianne Moore
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Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section…
— Mao Zedong
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The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven…
— Rikki Ducornet
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She soars on her own wings.
— Socrates
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God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not…
— Carol Kent
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
— John Milton
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He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most far gone. He…
— Richard M. Schulze
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She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her…
— Tim Tharp
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[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the…
— Iain Pears
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He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he…
— Jonathan Franzen
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It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and…
— Laini Taylor
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The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other.…
— Claire Morgan
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You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
— T.A. Barron
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Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.
— Robert Hunter
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Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost…
— Nick Gordon
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To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
— Ray Bradbury
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The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.
— Henning Mankell
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Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,…
— Carol Birch
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