Wings Quotes
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.
They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".
They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.
Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!
Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything.
A broken wing simply means, you have to find another way to fly. Have a wonderful day people.
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.
Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!
All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.
Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.