Wings Quotes

1815 Wings quotes by 1208 unique authors

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Unknown Author
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. — Osip Mandelstam
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is… — Annie Dillard
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the… — Kate Chopin
You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or… — Douglas Coupland
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least… — Edith Wharton
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is… — Samuel R. Delany
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. — Albert Einstein
Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They… — Neil Gaiman
Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest. — Anne Rice
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you… — Unknown Author
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest… — Khalil Gibran
If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely… — Patrick Carman
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. — James M. Barrie
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence… — Unknown Author
The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even… — Immanuel Kant
Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to… — Hiromu Arakawa
Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices… — Lewis Carroll
I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't… — Sarah Dessen
Without love we all like birds with broken wings. — Mitch Albom
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon… — Virginia Woolf
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character. — Harry S. Truman
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles!… — Victor Hugo
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo

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