Wings Quotes
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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.
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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
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All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.
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He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.
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I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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The tradition you were born into was your home, Brother Wayne told me, but as Gandhi once wrote, it should be a home with the windows open so that the winds of other traditions can blow through and bring their unique oxygen. “It’s good to have wings,” he would say, “but you have to have roots, too."
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The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
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When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?
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The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.
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Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully. "Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.
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Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
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Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
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Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?
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You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
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...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
