Quotes About Wings

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

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

Angels do walk among us. Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings resting upon their backs.

Fear has trapped me, rendered me immobile and powerless. I'd forgotten I even had wings, let alone how to use them.