Quotes about wings

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings.

Ina Catrinescu - Love of Fate

Angels are not beings with wings they are feelings that give us wings.

Lydia M. Child -

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

J.M. Barrie - The Little White Bird

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Amit Ray - World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

Anthony T.Hincks -

A dove carries peace on its wings.

Saim Cheeda -

It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with your wings clipped.

E. Nesbit - Five Children and It

For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.

Richard Paul Evans - Grace

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

Deborah Norville -

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

Filios Sazeides -

Show them how to fly and they will shine upon the clear blue skies, show them where to fly and they will fly upon the skies

Anthony Liccione -

We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.

Todd Crawshaw -

One day we wake from sleep to wander through this tale of dreams with wings fluttering lighter than love free.

Aprilynne Pike - Wings

-What's so funny?""-Sorry," David said, reddening again. "You just taste so sweet.""-What do you mean, sweet?"He licked his bottom lip one more time."-You taste like honey.""-Honey?""-Yeah, I thought I was going nuts the day...well, you know, that one day. But it was the same today. Your mouth is really sweet."He paused for a second, then grinned."-Hot like honey-like nectar. That makes more sense.""-Great. Now I'm going to have to explain that to everyone I kiss for the rest of my life unless i

Jim Henson -

Cara: *Flies*Gen: What? I don't have wings!Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

James Patterson - Fang

Okay, so, flying,” I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. “Flying is … great. It feels great when you’re doing it. It’s fun. Pure freedom. There’s nothing better.”Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face.“So the first thing we’re going to do,” I told him, “is push you off the roof.

Santosh Kalwar -

Science begs literature to develop wings.

Micheline Jean Louis -

It takes courage to forgive love and allow yourself to embrace it again, its like discovering wings you thought you've lost

Cass Ark Galleas - About Myself

You're not winged because you are flying on a dragon

Melody Lee - Moon Gypsy

It's her black wings that make her beautiful.

Munia Khan -

Nature has no beauty forbiddenManmade concrete slab: guilt-riddenWings or leaves whatever we may careThose limbs with the birds only trees will share

Melody Lee - Moon Gypsy

She has wings the color of wild and a soul the color of art.

Melody Lee - Moon Gypsy

Don't need a magic carpet to soar or wings to fly. I simply close my eyes and place my soul against the sky.

Caitlin Kittredge - The Iron Thorn

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Soar your wings high in the heavenly sky.

Ashlee Willis - A Wish Made of Glass

Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a thing alive, soaring in me. Its wings beat against my ribs, wild with the promise of joy.

Curtis Tyrone Jones -

The weight of your baggage never stops true love from taking flight.

Asma Naqi -

The most important lesson life has taught me: Nothing can kill us other than death itself. So, be fearless, take chances, step out of your comfort zone, spread your wings and soar high. Live while you are alive.

William Shakespeare -

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - What Is?: Advice for the Young

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.

Virginia Alison -

Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exhilaration not disappointment and after ascending through cloudy wisps, brushing your wings, there is only the clear blue horizon beckoning you forth....

Carolyn Turgeon - Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story

I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly....I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.

Charmaine J Forde -

I may not have a world of things, I may not have the biggest wings, What I do have is a heart of love, Because I trust the One above

Suzanne Collins -

I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.Finally, my wings begin to falter, I lose height, and gravity pulls me into a foamy sea the color of Finnick's eyes. I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. When I am adrift and unable to navigate, that's when they come. The dead.The ones I loved fly

Akshay Vasu -

The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day she understood she was not answerable to any of them who always blamed and pointed her, she had the fire blazing in her eyes. She raised and soared towards the sky. The whole world looked at her in awe and wished if only they could be her. She was not confined to be on the ground anymore. She had the wings of fire and she left a trail everywhere she went, for other to follow.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.

Elizabeth Richards -

You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man.

Quetzal -

The path’s been set ,The way has been pointed out to me,I need strength to walk, and make the first step,I need the light to see, and wisdom to discern,I need Evil and God, The path’s been set for me to follow,The way has been pointed out to me,I need courage, and hope, Time to unleash the beast, and set the dragon free,Time to rise and defy Death, Time to defeat Satan, and destroy God,Time for war and violence, time to love and kill,Time to tame the demons of the mind,Time to cut the angel’s wi

Debasish Mridha -

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.

Joyce Guo -

I rip out my wings I so I can't be free, I rip up my wounds so it doesn't heal, if I rip out my heart does this mean I can't feel

A.D. Posey -

Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.

Aleena Yasin -

I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the sky. I was a fish who couldn’t breathe in air and had to stay in dark waters forever while he was a majestic bird who soared so high that he barely touched the ground. I did not deserve him. I could only watch him from down here and wish, wish that he could come here someday. That he could know that I existed. But for that, he had to fall. He had to drop to the ground but I could not let that happ

Akshay Vasu -

It hurts, doesn't it? Giving someone everything you can think of. The wings to fly and roots to stay and yet watch them choose none of those, leaving you hanging in the middle of void and nothingness.

Ankita Singhal -

Let me nurture my wings, for I was born to fly.

Latika Teotia -

Most of us have grown up in an environment where there were too many ‘No’s’ and limitations. We, therefore, get moulded to living within the confines of these self made boundaries where our world has been shrunk. Fulfilling our innermost desires makes us feel guilty and we are forever in this denial mode- perhaps a fallout of our childhood when lots of things were beyond our reach. It’s high time that we got rid of this habit and start living for our soul. Break free and follow your heart; live

Giordano Bruno -

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.

Latika Teotia -

Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She found that she could lead a much better life if she let go of her past and started living in the “Present” .For the first time, in a long time, she found everything was so inspiring.She fell in love with life by growing Wings !!!

Robert Fanney -

In the depth a light will grow,A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky,That circle 'round a gleaming eye,Turning darkness all away,Even depths will know their day,For every shadow has its end,In light!Life will return again!

Swami Dhyan Giten - Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

Mark O'Connor in the poem 'Mutton Birds' - The Olive Tree: Collected Poems 1972 2000

since words are all we have of wings.

Steven R. Boyett - Mortality Bridge

You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels into which a cargo of meaning and emotion are placed, and when they leave you and reach the farther shore of another mind a considerable portion of that cargo has been lost at sea. Fallen overboard, gone to rot, consumed by vermin, decayed to a state unlike its original form.

Jackie Stewart -

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

William Blake -

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

Flavor Flav -

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Antonio Porchia -

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

O. J. Simpson -

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Joseph Smith - Jr.

An angel of God never has wings.

Dorothea Dix -

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away true knowledge remains forever.

Theodore Dreiser -

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

Henry Ward Beecher -

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Joseph Joubert -

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich -

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Jean de La Fontaine -

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Ray Bradbury -

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

Alicia Keys -

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

Steve Yzerman -

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

Ernest Hemingway -

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.

Jim Morrison -

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

Charles Ives -

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Henry Rollins -

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.

Joseph Joubert -

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Victor Hugo -

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.

Francis Beaumont -

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.

Shakti Gawain -

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

Sheridan Smith -

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

John Lewis -

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

Ray Bradbury -

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

James S.A. Corey - Cibola Burn

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

Louise Glück - Averno

I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I am tired of humanshe saidI want to live on the sun —

Alan Kinross - Longinus the Vampire: Redemption

He screamed in agony as large black wings erupted from his back - each had four large talons on it.

James Patterson - Max

Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. "He needs a Band-Aid," I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me.

A.M. McKnight - Goslyn County

Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas.

Craig Froman - An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness

The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.

Molly Friedenfeld -

Angels walk among us, Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings upon their backs.

Lisa Mischelle Wood - Just Believe: A Collection of Christian Poetry

I pray that I'll have wings one day, in which Your light adorns; but for now please let me be Your servant, Lord, like an angel not yet born.

Tammara Webber - Between the Lines

Oh No! My wings are effed up!

Emma Richler - Be My Wolff

Zachariah, Zachariah,' whispers Rachel, casting a practised eye over the back of his head and down the length of him, from the shoulder blades where his wings once grew, epochs ago, in some other guise: angel—guardian, avenging—or great vagrant bird—Daurian Jackdaw, Chimney Swift, Pacific Loon!

Brenda Sutton Rose -

My mama steps out of her dressand drops it, an inheritance falling to my feet.She stands alone: bathed, blooming,burdened with nothing of this world.Her body is naked and beautiful,her wings gray and scorched,her brown eyes piercing the brown of mine.I watch her departure, her flapping wings:She doesn’t look back, not even once,not even to whisper my name

Alison Croggon - The Naming

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

Lord Byron -

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Isla Fisher -

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Bryant H. McGill -

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.

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.

James Patterson - School's Out—Forever

They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

Mara Amberly - Dreams and Faerie Wings: An Art and Poetry Collection

Feathers layered like dragons’ scales,their symmetry perfectly fledged,framing slender shoulders; sublime.A tumble of red tresses shimmer.Soft wings arch toward the sky.Once a cherub, she has grown.A young woman now, strong and lithe.Powerful with stormy eyes alight,windswept in her glory.An angel in body and spirit.- Winged Justice

Alexis Hall - Glitterland

Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.