Wings Quotes
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Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.
Winifred Holtby
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Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.
Antoine-Marin Lemierre
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
Geraldine Brooks
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But still they turn from it, all of them, and bat their wings against their own impossible dreams.
Alma Alexander
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I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
Michael Douglas
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
Helen Keller
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Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they're given wings.
Rumi
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I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!
William Blake
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
Sarah Dessen
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Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
