Wings Quotes

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.

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

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.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

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.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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.

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.

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.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

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.