Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Laini Taylor

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

Laini Taylor

Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou

Lisa See

In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

John Ridley

I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

Larry Holmes

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.

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

Elizabeth Smart

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

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.

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.

John F. Kerry

I've been having problems with the right wing lately.

John Calvin

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

Elaine Paige

I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.

Lynne Truss

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

Lindsey Graham

Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Linda McCartney

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

Karl Urban

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

Karl Pilkington

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot...

John Lyly

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

John Malkovich

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

John Lydon

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

John Locke

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.