Wings Quotes

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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
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. — John Dryden
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
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. — William Cowper
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
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. — Alexander Pope
And little eagles wave their wings in gold. — Alexander Pope
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the… — Alexander Pope
On wings of wind came flying all abroad. — Alexander Pope
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings. — Alexander Pope
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
And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them.… — Terry Pratchett
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
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

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