Wings Quotes - Page 15

• Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

  Jo-Ann Mapson

  Daughter, Mother, Turns

  Jo-Ann Mapson (2010). “Solomon's Oak”, p.262, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

  Plato

  Inspiration, Sadness, Order

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• Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.

  Vitit Muntarbhorn

  Country, Sex, Children

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• 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”

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• I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily Kimball and all the prostitues of Memphis. This gal, she needs some wings, and a good song can make that happen.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

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• You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go.
  We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window:
  "Up, up, and away cause I don't play, clown,
  Buck, buck, buck, take that with you on the way down."
  I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes,
  But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues.

  Kool G Rap

  Spring, Rap, Men

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• The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, Keys, West

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, West, Fantasy

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• Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Self, Nurse

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that ended segregation. The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in despair and could have slid into dictatorship. And the fact is, every Republican has much to learn from studying what the Democrats did right.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Fighting, America

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• '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

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• Stupid cupid you're a real mean guy, I'd like to pick your wings so you can't fly, I am in love and it's a crying shame, and I know that you're the one to blame, hey, hey set me free, stupid cupid, stop picking on me.

  Mandy Moore

  Stupid, Real, Fall

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• 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.

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• In this world you've a soul for a compass
  And a heart for a pair of wings
  There's a star on the far horizon
  Rising bright in an azure sky
  For the rest of the time that you're given
  Why walk when you can fly?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Song: Why Walk When You Can Fly?, 1994

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• Glory be to God for dappled things-
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
  For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
  Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough;
  And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
  
  All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
  With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
  He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
  Praise him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Life, Sweet, Couple

  "Pied Beauty" l. 7 (written 1877)

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• Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.

  Beryl Markham

  Character, Yield, Hands

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
  The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
  The more I give the winds my pinions free,
  Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

  Giordano Bruno

  Clouds, Wind, Sky

  "Giordano Bruno: Philosopher and Martyr". Book by Thomas Davidson, 1890.

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• 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

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• I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

  Jerry Falwell

  Kings, Rights, Leader

  "Ministers and Marches". Jerry Falwell's sermon in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1965.

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• 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)

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Two, Simplicity, Feelings

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• 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”

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• I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America.

  Howard Dean

  Tired, Fighting, Iraq

  Fundraiser for the Maine Democratic Party at the Lewiston Armory, October 22, 2005.

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• 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.

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