Wings Quotes - Page 27

• No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Bird, Opening

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• To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

  Mary Stewart

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

  Kate Chopin

  Air, Broken, Water

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.155, Kate Chopin

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• World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

  Nelly Sachs

  Children, Taken, Butterfly

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• Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Together, Ashes

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• Most birds were created to fly.  Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly.  Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.  And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.

  William P. Young

  Pain, Hands, Long

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2008.

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• Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally"; and that, growing together in love and faithfulness, we can give children roots and wings.

  Gerrit W. Gong

  Children, Destiny, Roots

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• It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and they would have to be moved at three feet per second. Only a fool would expect such a thing to be realized.

  Jerome Lalande

  Men, Air, Feet

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• Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Journey, Gentleman, Bishops

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.314

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• Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified y the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Adventure, Men

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• A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

  Boris Pasternak

  Angel, Flames, White

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• Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos

  Donella Meadows

  Party, Oil, Climate

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• It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk
  The dew that lay upon the morning grass;
  There is no rustling in the lofty elm
  That canopies my dwelling, and its shade
  Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint
  And interrupted murmur of the bee,
  Settling on the sick flowers,
  And then again Instantly on the wing.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Morning, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “Summer Wind”

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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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• The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

  Edward Burne-Jones

  Angel, Soul, Favors

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• And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

  Donna Leon

  Distance, Angel, Cities

  Donna Leon (2015). “Death In A Strange Country: (Brunetti 2)”, p.151, Random House

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• A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Appreciation, Needs, Analysis

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• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

  Lynn Margulis

  Loss, Population, Mutation

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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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• 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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• If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.

  Dick Shawn

  Cat, Angel, Bird

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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