Wings Quotes

1815 quotes by 1208 authors

Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page… — John Steinbeck
At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around… — Sue Monk Kidd
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking… — Douglas Coupland
The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I… — Nancy Mitford
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the… — Albert Camus
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in… — Pablo Neruda
You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how… — Jonathan Safran Foer
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge.… — Vladimir Nabokov
Itâ€™s all right if you grow your wings on the way down. — Robert Bly
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand… — O.R. Melling
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of… — Robert Frost
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. — Henry Adams
pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly, and if left unresolved you can almost forget that… — William P. Young
You... were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around... Living… — William P. Young
They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hairâ€”no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no… — Meredith Ann Pierce
Knowledge is Life with wings — William Blake

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