Wings Quotes

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

An angel of God never has wings.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.

But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.