Wings Quotes

1815 Wings quotes by 1208 unique authors

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly. — Zeenat Aman
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy… — F B Meyer
True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. — Swami Paramananda
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out — William Shakespeare
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is… — John C. Wright
Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front… — Unknown Author
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
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings — Drake
Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel. — Drake

Who Wrote These Wings Quotes

1,208 authors contributed a total of 1,815 Wings Quotes, led by these top contributors: