Wings Quotes

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Girl, Sorry

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller

Lie, Leg, Scandal

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg

Night, Through, Destiny

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine

Time, Sadness, Away

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
William J. Clinton

Put, Eagle, Pig

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down.
Danielle Steel

Down, Sometimes, Off

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Love, Nothing

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson

Envy, Free, Fly

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Joseph Joubert

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.
Henry Rollins

Great, Morning, Against

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Hodding Carter

Hope, Children, Give

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Augustus Hare

Mind, Cannot, Exhausted

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Doug Coupland

Down, Duck, Arms

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
Paul McCartney

Love, Kids, Song

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Jean Paul

Heart, Reason, Hair

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain

Great, Nothing, Ambition

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.
Francis Beaumont

Faith, May, Her

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz Kafka

Off, Tear, Avail

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Bryant H. McGill

Silent, Shall, Opposition

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
Benjamin Tucker

Money, May, Said

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Miguel de Cervantes

Love, Hours, Absence

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser

Art, Human, Soul

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
William Harvey

Die, While, Born

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
Elizabeth Edwards

Food, Children, Important

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
George MacDonald

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
Billy Connolly

Give, Far, Wind

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
Bryant H. McGill

Hope, Truth, Matter

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
William Jennings Bryan

Hope, May, Together

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.
Hodding Carter

Children, Give, Two

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