Wings Quotes - Page 5

• A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon after it fluttered and died. The other silkworms that struggled out without help suffered, but they came out into full life and beauty, with wings made strong for flight by their battle for fresh existence.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Strong, Pain, Struggle

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

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more?

  Charles Mackay

  Wind, Pathways, Spots

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• I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dark, Winter, Loss

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “Winter garden”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!

  Dale Carnegie

  Worry, May, Way

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• Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Golden, Sun

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.190

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• Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

  Norton Juster

  Fall, Moving, Feet

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• Dreams are of no value if they don't have wings and feet.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Feet, Ifs

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton learned early that giving leads to getting". Interview with Chris Taylor, in.reuters.com. November 29, 2016.

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• Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Flames, Feet

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Done, My Fair Lady, Thousand

  "I Could Have Danced All Night" (song) (1956)

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• Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Heart, Sky

  1825 'To a Skylark', l.1-4 (published 1827).

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• Music gives a soul to the universe.

  Plato

  Music, Giving, Soul

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• You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put
  wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Hands, Feet

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• They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mind, Links, Given

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• What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

  Erica Jong

  Beautiful, Stars, Powerful

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• Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Airplane, Ideas, Smell

  Wolfgang Langewiesche (1994). “Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition”, McGraw-Hill

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• Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Patience, Running, Progress

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• I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Sad, Air

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.451, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Education, Courage, People

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• Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

  A. A. Milne

  Time, Opportunity, Race

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• The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.

  Anthony of Padua

  Bird, Heaven, Saint

  St Anthony of Padua “St Anthony of Padua - The Sermons of St Anthony”, Free Catholic Books

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• When one that holds communion with the skies
  Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise,
  And once more mingles with us meaner things,
  'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.

  William Cowper

  Angel, Sky, Water

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.77

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• In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot one because they're quite easy to find. They're the souls with the eternally deep eyes that always act like something is broken inside, but fail to realize it's just their wings.

  Suzy Kassem

  Real, Eye, Angel

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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