Wings Quotes

1815 Wings quotes by 1208 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren — Anne Sexton
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. — Pope John Paul II
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
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
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
Theology is ignorance with wings. — Sam Harris
To hurt is as human as to breathe. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. — William P. Young
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken. — Jan Karon
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels… — Charles Baudelaire
Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and… — George Eliot
Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of… — Clive Barker
A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more... — Dean Koontz
No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira] — Christopher Paolini
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we… — Neil Gaiman

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