Wings Quotes

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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. — Charles Ives
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you… — Victor Hugo
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she… — Victor Hugo
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has… — Victor Hugo
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. — Victor Hugo
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. — Muhammad Iqbal
I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization. — Peter Jennings
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. — Joseph Joubert
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so. — Franz Kafka
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? — Frida Kahlo
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. — John Keats
The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers… — Bill Keller
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. — Thomas a Kempis
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my… — Evel Knievel
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. — Christopher Lasch
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. — Christopher Lasch
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of… — John Lydon
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. — George MacDonald

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