Wings Quotes - page 3

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. (Marina Tsvetaeva)
If there was a God of sorrow, he would grow black heavy wings, to soar not for the skies, but for inferno. View quote
Emil Cioran
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. View quote
Mae West
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. View quote
Joseph Addison
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream. View quote
George W. Bush
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with. View quote
Georges Bataille
Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides. View quote
Theocritus
Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God,- purity apprehends and tastes Him. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth. View quote
Kate Chopin
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. (Elaine Paige)
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. View quote
Erasmus Darwin
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. View quote
Gerald Massey
How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings. View quote
John Lyly
I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings, A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things, If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light, As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night. View quote
Sara Teasdale
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed. View quote
Edith Wharton
Said I, in scorn all burning hot, In rage and anger high, "You ignominious idiot, Those wings are made to fly!" View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings. View quote
Sam Harris
Here is a list of fearful things: The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings, The rabid bite of the dog's of war, The voice of one who went before. But most of all the mirror's gaze, which counts us out our numbered days. View quote
Clive Barker
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. (Jean Giraudoux)
I'm learning to fly, But I ain't got wings. Coming down Is the hardest thing. View quote
Tom Petty
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. View quote
Francis Beaumont
What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who had never felt the wings of death on their face every moment-what relationship could exist between them and one like me who has arrived at the end of his rope and who knows that he will pass away gradually and tragically? View quote
Sadegh Hedayat
Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestowed upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again. View quote
William Cowper