Wings Quotes
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Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!
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The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
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His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
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I'm always looking for new ways to spread my creative wings.
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I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.
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To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
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Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.
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To the audience at her farewell concert. You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
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Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'
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A man with no imaginations has no wings.
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.
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Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
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The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.
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Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
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He was still wide awake when the morning came - the light changed imperceptibly underground, with the glowtrees flaring up brightly, and the shimmer of golden dust that remained suspended in the musty air, as if millions of butterflies had shed the scales of their wings in midair.
