Wings Quotes
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If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings!
Claire Williams -
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
Rumi
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher -
We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
Eli Attie -
Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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.
Kazuya Minekura -
A man with no imaginations has no wings.
Muhammad Ali -
Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Some girls need men to take them places. Others just click their heels, spread their own wings, and fly.
Coco J. Ginger -
I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
Dante Alighieri -
Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.
Antoine-Marin Lemierre -
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
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 -
Now there is something about Tuukka you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.
Brad Marchand -
...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice!
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!
William Blake -
I have no wings, but still I fly in the sky; I have no magical power, yet like magic I journey throughout realms of illusory display, here and there, in nine directions, exploring the connections of my karma.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
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Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We'll run on our own legs.
Keiko Nobumoto -
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).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
Annie Fellows -
Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.
Elizabeth Goudge