Wings Quotes - Page 21

• The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Bridges, Rivers

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

  Aberjhani

  Winning, Spread, Lifts

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

  Douglas Bader

  Strong, Needs, Pilots

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.22, Pen and Sword

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• But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

  David Frum

  Book, Thinking, Agency

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• I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train, how to work and how to prepare myself for a game. They gave me so much, and I saw the passion they had for the game and for teaching it. What I learned from them led me to want to become a teacher and coach.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Teacher, Couple, Teaching

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• Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches
  of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars
  we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend
  once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones
  we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me,
  a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives,
  our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope,
  a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple
  sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.

  Richard Jackson

  Beach, Morning, Stars

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• 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

  Bird, Relief, Velvet

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

  Jay Smith

  Queens, Eight, Cells

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• We don't need wings to be angels
  We don't need reasons to be right
  Your love makes us all better
  That who we really are
  Angels and heroes at heart

  Brian Littrell

  Hero, Heart, Angel

  Song: Angels and Heroes, Album: Welcome Home, 2006

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• And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

  James Webb Young

  May, Enough

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• During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

  Carol Tavris

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.

  Mikhail Turovsky

  Broken, Size, Fit

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• What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Men, Iron, Despair

  Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”

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• Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Men, Iron, Use

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.47, Mondial

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• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Fancy, Flight, Undecided

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• I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right-wing, and loyal to the political framework and it’s corporate interests.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Fighting, Media

  "Duty of Expression". Interview with Sarah Burton, howardzinn.org. November 23, 2003.

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• When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

  Edward Cocker

  Shining, Honor, Sun

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• For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

  Sir John Davies

  Long, Shining, Glory

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• The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faces, Revolution, Danger

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• How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

  Wayne LaPierre

  Wall, Media, Waiting

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it’s unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.

  Richey Edwards

  Party, Believe, Mean

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• The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

  Franz Halder

  Order, Track, Enemy

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• 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

  Healthy, Passing Away, Rope

  "The Blind Owl". Book by Sadegh Hedayat (1937), translated by Iraj Bashiri, 1974.

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• The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

  Abraham Flexner

  Real, Men, Enemy

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• Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Constraints

  Robert Bringhurst (2004). “Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America”, University of Manitoba Press

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