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Quotes About Wings

Pink wings in the lowering moon as the earth slipped 'round her silver light. They reached our wall. Our lines were strung. We held our land. What's said is done.
~ Kim Harrison
When drops from the canopy kissed her face, he drew his wings over his head, creating a shelter. "I've always room for you too.
~ Kresley Cole
Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.
~ Kristin Cast
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
~ Samuel Beckett
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.
~ yeats william butler iv
Where by books go by W.B. Yeats All the words that I utter, And all the words that I write, Must spread out their wings untiring, And never rest in their flight, Till they come where your sad, sad heart is, And sing to you in the night, Beyond where the waters are moving, Storm-darken'd or starry bright.
~ Yeats, William Butler
The rain is speaking quietly, you can sleep now. Near my bed, the rustle of newspaper wings. There are no other angles. I'll wake up early and bribe the coming day to be kind to us.
~ Yehuda Amichai
He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him.
~ Yukio Mishima
Tener segreto questo pensiero fu piacevole e allo stesso tempo triste. Quando sentivano di riuscire a volare insieme, spinti dalla potenza dell'amore, dovunque in quel cielo fino alla lontana riva opposta, l'idea di possedere le ali rendeva così reale le loro fantasie. purtroppo entrambi, credendo che solo l'altro avesse le ali, provarono un immenso sconforto perchè erano sicuri che un giorno o l'amato sarebbe volato via da solo".
~ Yukio Mishima
Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them upwards. Yet eagles cannot control the location of the columns, and their maximum carrying capacity is strictly proportional to their wingspan.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Birds fly not because they have a right to fly, but because they have wings. And
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Maybe everybody had wing buds, or at least the possibility of wings, only they just didn't know it. Maybe people had really been meant to have wings.
~ Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Let me fly with the wings of love or let me drown and die in the love.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle
~ Debbie Macomber
Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few moments, I'd like to go over the safety features of this aircraft. It has an engine, to make us go, and wings, to keep us in the air. There are seatbelts, which won't do you an awful lot of good if we fly into the side of a mountain.
~ Derek Landy
Before he'd arrived, Control had imagined himself flying free above the Southern Reach, swooping down from some remote perch to manage things. That wasn't going to happen. Already his wings were burning up and he felt more like some ponderous moaning creature trapped in the mire.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.
~ Jennifer Archer
He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
XXI. A BOOK. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.
~ Emma Donoghue
So when one spring in spite of all this good advice I fell in love, it felt like disaster. I took a tiny bite and it exploded in my stomach. Love splashed through every cranny, hauled on every muscle, unlocked every joint. I was so full of astonishment, I felt ten feet tall. My shoulders itched as if wings might break through.
~ Emma Donoghue
According to the Book, they had once been equipped with wings of their own, but evolution had stripped them of this power. All but the sprites. One school of thought believed that the People were descended from airborne dinosaurs. Possibly pterodactyls. Much of the upper-body skeletal structure was the same. This theory would certainly explain the tiny nub of bone on each shoulder blade.
~ Eoin Colfer