Quotes about wings
wings shadow affliction
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing. George MacDonald
wings west said
Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can. Josh Schwartz
wings has-beens denied
I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied. Layne Staley
wings pumps life-is
There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing. Laurel Clark
wings yellow space
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings. John Keats
wings faults unemployment
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. Luke Ford
wings quiet distraction
This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. Lord Byron
wings dumb consciousness
Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment. Julie Klausner
wings right-wing left-wing
Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. Kathy Acker
wings way toilets
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. Patrick Stewart
wings bird unbearable
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again. Gustave Flaubert
wings giving imagination
Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment. Louis Pasteur
wings weight flight
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. Marina Tsvetaeva
wings shining honor
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
wings earth answers
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us. Kate Bernheimer
wings likes england
Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half. Ron Atkinson
wings ideas light
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day. Roger Martin
wings people bird
People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground. Rick Warren
wings people guy
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. Quincy Jones
wings swim submarines
If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. Prince Philip
wings thorns youth
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness. Victor Hugo
wings bird soul
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
wings way grows
It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down. Robert Bly
wings doe
Why does she have wings?' So she can fly. Sarah Dessen
wings let-me spread
Spread your wings and let me come inside. Rod Stewart
wings people forever
Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle. Rod Serling
wings waiting interviews
If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that. Robert Smith
wings might spirit
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades. Sara Sheridan
wings giving people
Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors. Sandra Bernhard
wings bird tree
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. Samuel Rutherford
wings bird ships
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
wings white swans
Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed. Robinson Jeffers
wings lines arms
If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction? Veronica Roth