Wings Quotes - Page 11

• When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.

  Glenda Millard

  Doors, Bird, Leaving

  4 Copy quote

• This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistably propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.

  Walter Benjamin

  Angel, Past, Feet

  "Theses on the Philosophy of History". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1955.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.261, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

  Plato

  Race, Flying, Body

  Plato (1953). “Plato: With an English Translation”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  Thomas Ken

  Life, Running, Morning

  "Awake my soul, and with the sun" (hymn) (1695)

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'

  Jimmy Page

  Angel, Journey, Broken

  129 Copy quote

• Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Men, Ideas

  Hector Berlioz (1884). “Autobiography of Hector Berlioz: Member of the Institute of France, from 1803 to 1865. Comprising His Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England”

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hope gives the heart wings; the
  soul, an anchor.

  Janet Todd

  Heart, Anchors, Giving

  10 Copy quote

• The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is.

  Howard Dean

  Thinking, Government, House

  Speech to College Democrats, July 29, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Two, Simplicity, Feelings

  10 Copy quote

• Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings - because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Men, Animal

  19 Copy quote

• I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Angel, Devil

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Christmas Box: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

  Jim Horning

  Learning, Views, Discipline

  9 Copy quote

• When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

  Karl Urban

  Trying, Energy, Needs

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

  Richard Crashaw

  Angel, Thee, Pillow

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.15

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

  Howard Bloom

  Determination, Fun, Play

  4 Copy quote

• Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Summer, Stars

  137 Copy quote

• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

  48 Copy quote

• A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Parenting, Roots

  5 Copy quote

• The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

  Robert Bly

  Journey, Other Worlds, Long

  Robert Bly (1986). “Selected poems”, Harper Perennial

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Summer, Writing, Thinking

  9 Copy quote

• I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

  Layne Staley

  Has Beens, Denied

  67 Copy quote

• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Color

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, America, Squares

  7 Copy quote

• Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Party, Believe, Care

  8 Copy quote