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Quotes About Wings

Our quiet rage gives us wings, the possibility to negotiate the gears winding backwards uniting all time.
~ Patti Smith
I wrote some notes on paper napkins for my forthcoming talk, then sat daydreaming about the angels in Wings of Desire . How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then immediately realized I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michel, but my human angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the color of water.
~ Patti Smith
For me death is just moving from one school into another. But there's going to be a difference, because in that new school I shall have wings so I wont need to walk up and down the stairs!
~ Unknown
There are things we find only at our lowest depths. The idea of wings and then wings themselves. An ocean worth crossing one dark mile at a time. The whole of the sky.
~ Paula McLain
There are things we find only at our lowest depths. The idea of wings and then wings themselves. An ocean worth crossing one dark mile at a time. The whole of the sky. And whatever suffering has come is the necessary cost of such wonders, as Karen once said, the beautiful thrashing we do when we live.
~ Paula McLain
are things we find only at our lowest depths. The idea of wings and then wings themselves. An ocean worth crossing one dark mile at a time. The whole of the sky. And whatever suffering has come is the necessary cost of such wonders, as Karen once said, the beautiful thrashing we do when we live.
~ Paula McLain
Listen, I wanted to say, when you fell in love with me you must also have been in love with my wings. Love them now. Love me. Love me, and let me go.
~ Paula McLain
She heard the sound of one tremendous flap and looked up in time to see the man who'd put a hole in the roof of her stable hovering in the air over her castle looking down at her. For the space of a breath, Sam's heart completely stopped beating in her chest at what she saw in the bright light of day. Those were wings. They were real. And then she fainted dead away in her garden.
~ Unknown
Wir gehen allein durch diese Welt, doch wen wir großes Glück haben, dürfen wir einen Augeblick lenag jemandem gehören, jemandem der uns durch die Einsamkeit trägt, die ein Legen lang andauert! Und für eine Minute habe ich ihn noch einmal berührt, in der Abenddämerung, und mir sind rote Flügel gewachsen, ich war wieder jung im Sommergarten. Ich hatte wieder Hoffnung und das ewige Leben.
~ Paullina Simons
Qué bien pareja del tiempo llaman a la fortuna, pues ambos sobre una rueda y dos alas, 85 para el bien o para el mal corren siempre y nunca paran!
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
~ Genesis 7:14
And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
~ Exodus 25:20
And the cherubim had wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
~ Exodus 37:9
He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
~ Leviticus 1:17
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
~ 2 Samuel 22:11
And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.
~ 1 Kings 6:27
For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
~ 1 Kings 8:7
the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense; and the plans for the chariot of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
~ 1 Chronicles 28:18
The wing of the second cherub also measured five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while its other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub.
~ 2 Chronicles 3:12
For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
~ 2 Chronicles 5:8
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
~ Job 39:13
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
~ Psalm 18:10
Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah
~ Psalm 61:4
For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.
~ Psalm 63:7