Wings Quotes

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

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

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

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.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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.