Wings Quotes

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Life, Music, Mind

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Friendship, Time

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison

Death, Makes, Angels

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo

Give, Enough, Prayer

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Hard, May

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Great, Desire

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Victor Hugo

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
Bob Dylan

Kings, Impressed, Dined

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
Ray Bradbury

Find, Fall, Jump

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

High, Bird, Soars

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Down, Living, Off

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Talent, Natural

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Down, Off, Build

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo

Same, Away, Her

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

Greatest, Children, Give

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes

Love, Laughter, Parents

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

Love, Same, Away

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher

Person, Married, Poorly

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Love, Friendship

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi

Hurt, Someone, Makes

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo

Soul, Bird, Illusions

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley

Character, Fame, Accident

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Michelangelo

Love, Good, Death

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert

End, Skies, Looked

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Jack Welch

Give, Put, Almost

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats

Philosophy, Angel, Clip

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