Wings Quotes - page 25

The story of Rachel's unique illness was no secret in Crawford, of course. The fact of it had spread through the college the first year of Rachel's return and the entire town knew soon after. Crawford reacted in the fashion of small towns immemorial-some tongues wagged constantly, some people could not keep the pity and pleasure at someone else's misfortune out of their voices and gazes-but mostly the community had folded its protective wings around the Weintraub family like an awkward mother bird shielding its young. (Dan Simmons)
Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings. View quote
Alan Alda
...That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one, And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree. Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end, While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever. View quote
Bai Juyi
Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. View quote
Jules Renard
These were a part of the playing I heard Once, ere my love and my heart were at strife; Love that sings and hath wings as a bird, Balm of the wound and heft of the knife. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Like a trembling hind pursued by a Hyrcanian tigress, or like a pigeon that checks her flight when she sees a hawk in the sky, or like a hare that dives into the thicket at sight of the eagle hovering with outstretched wings in the cloudless sky. View quote
Silius Italicus
My attendants are Honour and Praise, Renown and Glory with joyful countenance, and Victory with snow-white wings like mine. View quote
Silius Italicus
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. View quote
Henry Rollins
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings. View quote
Don Marquis
Feeling that the silver chord of life is loosing, and that his spirit is ready to quit her old companion the body, he extends himself on his bed - closes his eyes for the last time, with his own hands - folds his arms decently on his breast, then breathing out "Father of mercies! take me to thyself," - he fell asleep. Swift on angels' wings the brightening saint ascended; while voices more than human were heard (in Fancy's ear) warbling through the happy regions, and hymning the great procession towards the gates of heaven. His glorious coming was seen far off, and myriads of mighty angels hastened forth, with golden harps, to welcome the honored stranger. (Mason Weems)
Just as a biplane and a jet share common features of wings, body, tires, engine, controls, etc.,... does not require that one must have evolved from the other naturally, without a maker. They argue it's more reasonable to conclude that similar design indicates a common, intelligent designer. An architect typically uses similar building materials for numerous buildings, and a car manufacturer commonly uses the same parts in various models. So if creation had a common designer, we could expect to find a similar "blueprint” used in many different creatures. View quote
Ray Comfort
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things: Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. View quote
Amelia Earhart
And something started in my soul, fever or forgotten wings, and I made my own way, deciphering that fire, and I wrote the first faint line, faint, without substance, pure nonsense, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing, and I suddenly saw the heavens unfastened and open. View quote
Pablo Neruda
LATER than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dream these had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light pulsing in their wings, he could ever quite get to in time. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
the sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. i've never had it done so gently before. you have put a circle of castles around my penis and you swirl them like sunlight on the wings of birds. View quote
Richard Brautigan
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt? View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
In merest prudence men should teach [...] That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings- E'en angels' wings!-are fictions. (Henry Austin Dobson)
He had gone to several universities . . . and had found only curves and credits. He had become drunk on the idea of God and found only theology. He had risen several times on the subtle and powerful wings of lust, expectant of magnificence, achieving only discharge. A few times he had extended friendship with palpitating hope, only to find that no one quite knew what he had in mind. His solitude now was the result of his metabolism, that constant breathing in of joy and exhalation of sadness. View quote
Edward Lewis Wallant
Yes, it was swell to sleep when you were looking forward to something. Time flies by and you don't even hear the rustle of its wings. View quote
Fredric Brown
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it. View quote
Giordano Bruno
We rise, but by the symbol charioted, Through loved things rising up to Love's own ways By these the soul unto the vast has wings And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things. View quote
George William Russell