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Quotes About Winged

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river's deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
~ Aberjhani
It was the monster of all winged dinosaurs, the pteranodon.
~ James Rollins
The fighter's winged-scarab fuselage described a tight Immelmann that brought it squarely into the last target's rear aspect.
~ James Swallow
I've always found cherubs a bit sinister. The idea of winged babies flying around with no nappies on seems like an accident waiting to happen. There would be shit everywhere. If I saw a cherub flying about in real life it would terrify me, whereas a Cyclops, which is another mythical being, wouldn't scare me at all, as it's just a bloke with one eye. He'd be registered disabled and get a decent parking space in today's world.
~ Karl Pilkington
For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.
~ John Milton
Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!
~ George Moses Horton
for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
~ Plato
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
~ Joseph Joubert
For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
~ Plato
The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.
~ Plato, Ion
Love to faults is always blind,Always is to joy inclin'd,Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,And breaks all chains from every mind.
~ William Blake
Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.
~ Koushun Takami
Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.
~ Shannon Hale
Around our pillows golden ladders rise, And up and down the skies, With winged sandals shod, The angels come, and go, the Messengers of God!
~ Richard Henry Stoddard
Whathat! Tyson gasped. Those are the stables for the pegasi, I replied, You know, winged horses? Whasthat! Um... those are the toilets.
~ Rick Riordan
I stood at the window, where I once stood with my father looking out through binoculars, and even now small winged creatures occasionally flitted by, but they were no more than reminders that birds mean nothing at all to me anymore.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I realized my mother had charm and verve. If I blew on her name, ROSE, the letters would shuffle around and come out as EROS, the god of love, winged but lame.
~ Deborah Levy
Wing'd with a Drunken Excellence.
~ Anacreon
A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
~ Joanna Baillie
We have a week, Miss Forsythe. Time's winged chariot and all that.
~ Anna Campbell
It was not fear of ridicule, to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life, but this blank desertion of his own mind that threw him into despair.
~ Anne Carson
My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea. Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me. We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.
~ Anne McCaffrey
Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.
~ Anne Ursu
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one gray morning of war-time.
~ Evelyn Waugh