Wings Quotes
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
Henry Ward Beecher
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
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Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
William Langewiesche
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I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.
Laini Taylor
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
Erica Jong
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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
Edward E. Barnard
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The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
Saib Tabrizi
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People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
Caryl Churchill
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Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.
Scott McNealy
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Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
Rumi
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Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
Elvis Costello
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
Dante Alighieri
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
William Cowper
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Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.
Ephrem the Syrian
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Knowledge is Life with wings.
William Blake
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I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
Christopher Bollen
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And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.
Charles Dickens
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Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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DHR has been my backbone, ... I love kids. I wish I could spread my wings and take them all in. I don't have a lot of money, but I have a lot of love and DHR knows that.
Angela Davis
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It was because it was so full of white wings that Fairhaven was such a happy place; wings of the yachts, of the seagulls, and of the swans . . . . White wings are for ever happy, symbols of escape and ascent, of peace and of joy, and a spot of earth about which they beat is secure of its happiness.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.
William Lewis Safir
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I'm always looking for new ways to spread my creative wings.
Ariana Madix
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The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton