Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

J. K. Rowling

Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully. "Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.

Nancy Mitford

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Kathy Bates

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

Michael Hutchence

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

Michael Douglas

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

Ray Bradbury

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Michelle Malkin

Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?

Michelle Malkin

The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.

Michael Moore

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

John Milton

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

John Milton

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

Mitch Albom

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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)

Nigel Short

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Nas

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

Miranda Kerr

We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly

Marina Tsvetaeva

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Pat Paulsen

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

Plautus

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

Plautus

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Plautus

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

Plato

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

Plato

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

Mary E. Pearson

There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.

Lech Walesa

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

Marianne Moore

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

Michael Chabon

I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.

Michael Jordan

I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.

Theodore Roethke

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

Melissa Etheridge

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

Michelangelo

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.