Wings Quotes

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

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.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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.

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