Wings Quotes

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

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

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

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.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

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.

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.