Wings Quotes
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In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.
Lisa See
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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
William Butler Yeats
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We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.
Louise Hart
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.
Jackie Stewart
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Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
Kevin Spacey
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However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
William Shakespeare
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
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The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.
Pablo Casals
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I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why
Michael Hutchence INXS
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The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.
Eugene V. Debs
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Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.
Rachel Carson
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I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.
Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
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We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.
Plato
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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
William Shakespeare
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All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.
Daniel Bernoulli
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I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.
Kelly Clarkson
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A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
Quincy Jones
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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.
Michael Dickinson
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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
Plato
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
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Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.
Amit Ray