Top Wings Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Wings quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Clarence Thomas
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
- Clarence Thomas
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Image of Igor Sikorsky
According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.
- Igor Sikorsky
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Image of Elizabeth Smart
How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.
- Elizabeth Smart
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Image of Thomas Brooks
In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
- Thomas Brooks
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Image of Samantha Shannon
Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.
- Samantha Shannon
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Image of Anatoli Boukreev
Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.
- Anatoli Boukreev
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Image of Mike Shinoda
I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.
- Mike Shinoda
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Image of Denise Mina
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
- Denise Mina
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Image of Layne Staley
I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.
- Layne Staley
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Image of Abdu'l-Bahá
Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.
- Abdu'l-Bahá
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Image of Richard Peck
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
- Richard Peck
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Image of Ivan Pavlov
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.
- Ivan Pavlov
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Image of Osip Mandelstam
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
- Osip Mandelstam
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Image of John of the Cross
However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
- John of the Cross
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Image of Sadegh Hedayat
What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who had never felt the wings of death on their face every moment - what relationship could exist between them and one like me who has arrived at the end of his rope and who knows that he will pass away gradually and tragically?
- Sadegh Hedayat
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Image of Tom Petty
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
- Tom Petty
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Image of Jonathan Stroud
Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in this guise." "Well,you could put on a pair of shorts,at least.Your not decent." "I'm not sure they'd go with the wings..." The demon frowend,and blinked."Hold on,enough of this." "Lenderhosen would. They'd compliment the leather.
- Jonathan Stroud
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Image of Tablo
They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.
- Tablo
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Image of Steve Erickson
I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the great domestic crucible of the day, civil rights and racial justice, conservatives were on the wrong side historically and morally, and that it took too much intellectual and psychological jujitsu to pretend otherwise. I didn't want to pretend anymore; I wanted to be on the right side.
- Steve Erickson
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Image of Jean Paul
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
- Jean Paul
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Image of Marina Tsvetaeva
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
- Marina Tsvetaeva
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Image of Frank Borman
We have to earn our Wings every day.
- Frank Borman
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Image of Tom Metzger
No, I do not identify with the right wing.
- Tom Metzger
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Image of Caitlin Kittredge
Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.
- Caitlin Kittredge
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Image of Hector Berlioz
Music and love are the wings of the soul.
- Hector Berlioz
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Image of James D. Watson
I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
- James D. Watson
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Image of Martin Farquhar Tupper
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Image of Robert Bringhurst
Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.
- Robert Bringhurst
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Image of Prince Philip
If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
- Prince Philip
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Image of Tess Gerritsen
Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
- Tess Gerritsen
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Image of Sabrina Ward Harrison
Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
- Sabrina Ward Harrison
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Image of Robert Bly
It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
- Robert Bly
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Image of Bruce Coville
If you don’t jump, the wings never come.
- Bruce Coville
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Image of Juan Williams
For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States. legally.
- Juan Williams
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Image of Stephen Moyer
I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.
- Stephen Moyer
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Image of Eddie Redmayne
Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.
- Eddie Redmayne
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Image of Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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Image of Karl Pilkington
Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.
- Karl Pilkington
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Image of Jack Canfield
Jump, then grow wings on the way down.
- Jack Canfield
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Image of Corra May Harris
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.
- Corra May Harris
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Image of Elaine Paige
I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.
- Elaine Paige
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Image of George Scialabba
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.
- George Scialabba
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Image of Howard Bloom
Most right-wing person I know!
- Howard Bloom
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Image of Yip Harburg
Music gives 'wings' to words.
- Yip Harburg
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Image of Andy Biersack
Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed.
- Andy Biersack
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Image of Anzia Yezierska
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
- Anzia Yezierska
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Image of Edward Cocker
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
- Edward Cocker
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Image of John Henry Jowett
Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.
- John Henry Jowett
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