Wings Quotes

I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't.

Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

Come near me and I'll rip your wings off and beat you with them.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ.

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving.

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.

How oft, - be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there.

Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

Spread your wings and let me come inside.

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.

We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

Dry leaves upon the wall, Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape, A single frosted cluster on the grape Still hangs--and that is all.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.

The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.

Stop calling your akri your daddy. It makes my wings droop. (Xirena) My akri is my daddy. He said so and it is so, so your wings can droop all they want, ‘cause it won’t change anything! (Simi)

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

"If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?" "Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive." "Mockingjays do."

People don't need wings to survive" "Mockingjays do.

You don't automatically sprout angel wings when you get to the other side - you grow them here.

Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.