Wings Quotes

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings.

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Be patient. Life can seem pretty gray while those beautiful wings of yours are being formed. All in due time, dear one. All in due time.

Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.

Jump, then grow wings on the way down.

Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.

A person should have wings to carry them where their dreams go, but sometimes a pair of skis makes a good substitute.

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.