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Quotes About Wing

However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn without ceasing to fly,—therein lies the marvel of genius. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
~ Victor Hugo
Look on the bright side, suicide Lost eyesight I'm on your side Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing Lack of iron and/or sleeping Protector of the kennel Ecto-plasma, Ecto-skeletal Obituary birthday Your scent is still here in my place of recovery!" ~
~ Kurt Cobain
It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and so were her daughter and granddaughter after her, and their place in the world was everywhere and nowhere, like gypsies on wing. No home had they but their caravans and campfires, and no family but the one they'd cobbled together of crows, creatures and kindred souls they'd met on their endless journey round and round the world.
~ Laini Taylor
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
~ Gilbert White
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
An angel lost his wing, Crooked he did fly.
~ Terri Guillemets
I look around for someplace to sit, but of course there's nowhere. It's the bathroom in the math wing, not the bathroom in Blair Waldorf's house.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather!
~ Charles Dickens
But what,' said Mr Swiveller with a sigh, 'what is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!
~ Charles Dickens
Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing.
~ Alexandre Dumas, fils
What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself, All islands to which birds wing their way I wing my way myself.
~ Walt Whitman
He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face.
~ Walter Isaacson
We were dreamed around. I got to know the intimate fold Of feathers in the wing And recognize and nod to the ripple in its rush.
~ Tim Lilburn
Blue IceWing blood everywhere.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.
~ Unknown
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
~ Philip Yancey
Knowing him, I thought his main feeling would have been gratification that the wing of Persian antiquities next door had escaped.
~ Diana Gabaldon
To fall asleep like a bird. To have a wing you could stick your head under, a world of branches suspended above the earthly world, barely glimpsed down below, muffled and remote. Once you begin rejecting your present state, there is no knowing where you can arrive.
~ Italo Calvino
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
~ Ivan Pavlov
I am the Angel with the Broken Wing, The one large statue in this quiet room. …Perhaps I am a masterpiece of sorts— The perfect emblem of futility.
~ Dana Gioia
Courage is the air under your wing that defines how high you will soar.
~ Unknown
Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?
~ Lynne Truss
She asked me what Meyer had meant about her having a broken wing. I said he was one of the last of the great romantics. I said there used to be two. But now there was just the one left. The hairy one.
~ John D. MacDonald
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth! O unconfin'd Restraint! imprisoned liberty! great key To golden palaces, strange minstrelsy, Fountains grotesque, new trees, bespangled caves, Echoing grottos, full of tumbling waves And moonlight; aye, to all the mazy world 460 Of silvery enchantment!–who, upfurl'd Beneath thy drowsy wing a triple hour, But renovates and lives?–
~ John Keats