Wings Quotes
1815 quotes by 1293 authors
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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it…
— John Milton
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Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard;…
— George Parsons Lathrop
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of…
— John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great she is.…
— Anson Dorrance
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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to…
— E. O. Wilson
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service; take it into…
— John Ellerton
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I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings
— Drake
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Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.
— Drake
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I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!
— Robert Bolt
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never…
— Charles Dickens
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
— Susan Sontag
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It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you…
— Jack Handey
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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating…
— Clement of Alexandria
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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
— John Milton
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I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils…
— Richard Paul Evans
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