Wings Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

  Ally Condie

  Strong, Butterfly, Eye

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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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• All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Bird, Needs, Pressure

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Latin, Roles, Actors

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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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• 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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• The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

  Tyler Cowen

  Class, Might, Sides

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