Wings Quotes

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

We have to earn our Wings every day.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

In the dark days of your life, you will need the wings of hope to continue flying.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

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

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.

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."

We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.

Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

We don't need wings to be angels We don't need reasons to be right Your love makes us all better That who we really are Angels and heroes at heart

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why

God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.

In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us unawares.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.