Wings Quotes - Page 35

• Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?

  Rose Fyleman

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Rose Fyleman, “Have You Watched The Fairies?”

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• Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Motivational, Loss

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• When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew the blur of wings, the rocketing form, and the Great Moment that only hunters know, when all existence draws down to two points and a single line. And the universe holds it breath. And what may be and what will be meet and become one - before the echo returns to its source.

  Pete Dunne

  Gun, Hunting, Echoes

  Pete Dunne (1995). “Before the Echo: Essays on Nature”

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• This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

  Hafez

  Love, Marriage, Sky

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• When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message...that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.

  Mary Meeker

  Spiritual, Butterfly, Psych

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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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• 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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