Wings Quotes - Page 6

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

  Jim Morrison

  Death, Angel, Ravens

  Song: A Feast Of Friends

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• They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

  Buddy Guy

  Sweet, Angel, Way

  FaceBook post by Buddy Guy from Aug 23, 2013

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• If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Clever, Men, Black

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• The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
  [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
  Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Movement, Hawks

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• Dark wings, dark words.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dark

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1498, Bantam

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• I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

  Charles de Lint

  Hate, Cutting, Sight

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Eagles, Clouds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.108, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Top Management

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• A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.

  Charles Frazier

  Spring, Roots, Bird

  Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.300, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future

  Eric Carle

  Growing Up, Stories, Littles

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• For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Block, Healthy, Alternatives

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• O for a horse with wings!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 3, sc. 2, l. [49]

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• I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Jobs, Trying, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Talent, Like You

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.80, Random House

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• Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

  Martial

  Swings, Bird, Bears

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

  Michelangelo

  Love, Inspiration, Men

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• There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

  Alfred de Musset

  Angel, Temptation, Humanity

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Father, War

  Source: scottlondon.com

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  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

  Thanksgiving, Prayer, Solitude

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• Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Heaven, Soar

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• 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, Rapper, Animal

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• The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Europe, Storm

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Bird, Heaven

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• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Military, Men

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• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Angel, Men

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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