Birds Wings Quotes

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  Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Faith, Airplane

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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• The man who has no imagination has no wings.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2010

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• 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

  Nature, People, Envy

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• From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

  Helen Hayes

  Education, Laughter, Book

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Knowing, Bending

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• Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

  Rumi

  Change, Success, Hands

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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• As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

  William Carlos Williams

  Reality, Air, Imagination

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

  Eric Berne

  Nature, Boys, Equality

  ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

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• Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Believe, Book

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Falling In Love, Eye, Faces

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.360, e-artnow

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• Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Flower, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

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• Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

  C. S. Lewis

  Angel, Men, Devil

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.6, Harper Collins

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