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Quotes About Wing

I'm an attacking player - I prefer left wing, right wing. They're quite even for me.
~ Michail Antonio
If I play on the wing, that's great, and if I play in the center that's excellent.
~ Hulk
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of SpringThe Winter garment of Repentance fling:The Bird of Time has but a little wayTo fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
In Cicero's time the left and the right wing in ethical philosophy were represented by the Epicureans and the Stoics respectively, while the Peripatetics held a middle ground.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world. So stupid it can't even fly anymore. I am eating lost flight.
~ Margaret Atwood
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
~ Omar Khayyam
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
~ William Cowper
Her fingertips brushed the cool nanomesh of Perceval's parasite wing, and she jerked it back with a gasp, sucking her fingertips as if she'd burned them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
When the Dragon bent her neck to shift a wing long as a battlefold, an ashen sheen rippled over char-dark scales.
~ Elizabeth Bear
it was as black as a raven's wing she'd once found on the beach.
~ Elizabeth Boyle
Not unfortunately the universe is wild — game-flavoured as a hawk's wing.
~ B. P. Blood
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.
~ Joanna Baillie
Unless an age too late, or coldClimate, or years damp my intended wing.
~ John Milton
I'd found my path. I might not know the exact twists and turns it would take, but that was part of what I'd learned. Options changed. Needs changed. I could wing it a little. The important thing was seeing the overall picture. The forest.
~ Barbara Delinsky
A bird's wing, comrades,' he said, 'is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg. The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
~ George Orwell
Visitors come on two legs, on four, on the sweeping sinuosity of scaled legless bodies. There are perches in front of every exhibit for those who come by wing, whethered feathered or mebranous, and the Museum does its best to accomodate those whose habitual method of locomotion is aquatic.
~ Sarah Monette
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone, and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.
~ Mark Twain
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.
~ Omar Khayyam
A red-tailed hawk rose high on an air current, calling out shrill, sequential rasps of raptor joy. She scanned the sky for another one. Usually when they spoke like that, they were mating. Once she'd seen a pair of them coupling on the wing, grappling and clutching each other and tumbling curve-winged through the air in hundred-foot death dives that made her gasp, though always they uncoupled and sailed outward and up again just before they were bashed to death in senseless passion.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.
~ Bob Dylan
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
~ Alexandre Dumas-fils
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation
~ Beryl Markham
That's a lot. he whispered It is. I want you to be prepared. There's no preparing for that. He kissed her again.. I'm going to have to wing it.
~ Susan Mallery