Wings Quotes
1815 quotes by 1208 authors
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The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all,…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my…
— Rick Riordan
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The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects…
— Tony Hillerman
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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
— Nicholas Sparks
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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming…
— Alfred de Musset
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These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing…
— Leo Tolstoy
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make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more separation of you and your home God has…
— Unknown Author
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We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We…
— Unknown Author
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Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall…
— Lord Byron
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I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened…
— Arina Tanemura
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It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so…
— Richelle Mead
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While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
— Margaret Atwood
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...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
— Anne Sexton
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Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
— Pope John Paul II
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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma…
— Junot Diaz
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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