Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite. — Amit Ray
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings. — Martha Graham
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore
I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine. — Brendon Urie
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers. — Plautus
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them. — Kevin Myers
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? — Frida Kahlo
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. — Rumi
Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot. — Karl Pilkington
Take these broken wings and learn to fly. — Paul McCartney
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. — Plato
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight. — William Carlos Williams
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings. — Susan Sontag
Short Birds Wings Quotes
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly. — Rumi
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. — Saadi Shirazi
In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. — Jose Marti
Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction! — Andy Biersack
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. — Francis Beaumont
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.
Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow. — Louis de Bernieres
Without love we all like birds with broken wings. — Mitch Albom
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
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain. — Craig Raine
Bird Flying Quotes
I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.' — Hafez
All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!! — Abdul Kalam
Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
And I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good — Nina Simone
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. — Morgan Freeman
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Like a bird singing in the rain, the grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. — Muhammad Ali
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. — Tommy Douglas
Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon. — Benny Hinn
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. — Harun Yahya
Birds In Flight Quotes
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. — Victor Hugo
Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I? — Judy Garland
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I? — Yip Harburg
A bird in the hand is worth more than one hundred in flight. — Mexican Proverbs
Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women. — Alexander McQueen
God gives every bird a worm, but does not throw it into the nest.
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams
There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. — Shel Silverstein
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die. — Mary Elizabeth Frye
Wings To Fly Quotes
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly. — Napoleon Bonaparte
According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway. — Igor Sikorsky
Little by little, the bird makes its nest.
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi
Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.' — Jimmy Page
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. — Ambrose
Use what talent you possess; the wood would be very silent if no bird sang except those that sang best.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. — William Shakespeare
When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly! — Lance Wubbels
Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly. — Pio of Pietrelcina
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need
the two wings of emptiness and compassion.
From now on, let us use these two wings
to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Angel Wings Quotes
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts. — Mary Baker Eddy
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. — Mae West
Angels are always with you. You're never alone, especially in your time of need. Listen in stillness for our guidance, which comes upon wings to your heart, mind, and body. Our messages always speak of love. — Doreen Virtue
I would like to paint the way a bird signs.
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. — Billy Connolly
I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing. — Kirsten Dunst
They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me! — Buddy Guy
There are two gifts we should give our children, one is roots and the other is wings
The golden hours on angel wings
Flew o'er me and my dearie,
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary. — Robert Burns
I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days. — Jimmy Page
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. — Jim Morrison
We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly. — Luciano De Crescenzo
Eagles Wings Quotes
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. — John Dryden
The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm. — Jack White
At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life. — James D. Watson
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. — Helen Keller
To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth. — Charles Spurgeon
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. — William J. Clinton
Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren — Anne Sexton
My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth. — Juliet Marillier
Butterfly Wings Quotes
I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings. — Janusz Korczak
Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. — Christina Rossetti
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy
When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another. — Edward Norton Lorenz
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. — Denis Diderot
Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour. — Amy Lowell
She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood. — Tanith Lee
17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.” “Leo, that’s Snow White,” Piper said. — Rick Riordan
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. — Will Carleton
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. — William Blake
Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance. — Aya Kito
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
With brightest sunshine round me spread
Of spring's unclouded weather,
In this sequestered nook how sweet
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
And birds and flowers once more to greet,
My last year's friends together. — William Wordsworth
A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass! — Richard Henry Stoddard
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
While small birds nestle in the edge below. — John Clare
The silence is death.
It comes each day with its shock
to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
and peck at the black eyes
and the vibrating red muscle
of my mouth. — Anne Sexton
All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away. — Charles Dickens
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings! — Paul Laurence Dunbar
The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are its two wings. When the head and two wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully; if the head is severed, the bird dies; if the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. — Virginia Woolf
On a weekday morning that normally would have been spent chained to a desk, I mounted my bike for the first time in months and began pedaling toward the Santa Monica Mountains. Soon I was ascending Topanga Canyon, and as the sun rose into the clear blue skies above the ridgeline, I spotted a hawk. In a perfect symbiosis of air and wing, the majestic bird sailed its perfect arc across the morning sky. And that's when I understood. If I could summon the courage to pursue my passion with purpose and without fear, I, too, could experience such synchronicity. Somehow, everything would work out. — Rich Roll
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. — Ambrose Bierce
A bird never flew on one wing. — Danish Proverbs
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. — Victor Hugo
You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use. — Ozzy Osbourne
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying. — Helene Cixous
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years . . .
I sleep and my heart stays awake . . . — Giorgos Seferis
I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird. — Pat Paulsen
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words. — Vladimir Nabokov
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. — Langston Hughes
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing. — Omar Khayyam
You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings. — Elton John
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. — Roger Tory Peterson
Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings. — Joni Mitchell
Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings. — Victor Hugo
For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love. — Nicole Krauss
Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way. — Rabindranath Tagore
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for. — Amit Ray
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. — James M. Barrie
Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. — Thomas Jefferson
How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon!
The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze
His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;
Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees;
And birds of morning trim their bustling wings,
And listen fondly--while the Blackbird sings. — Frederick Tennyson
Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away. — Gelsey Kirkland
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. — Rumi
People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground. — Rick Warren
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. — Kahlil Gibran
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