Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
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
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Improve the World Through Music. — Plato
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart. — Hafez
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. — George Orwell
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings. — Martha Graham
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
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 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
Short Wings Quotes
Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed. — Andy Biersack
I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings — Nas
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. — C. Archie Danielson
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. — Carlos Santana
The man who has no imagination has no wings. — Muhammad Ali
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them. — Kevin Myers
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. — Ray Bradbury
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. — Ambrose
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? — Frida Kahlo
Wings Image Quotes
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Rumi
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J. R. R. Tolkien
What good are wings withou the courage to fly.
I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. — Sadako Sasaki
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake
In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.
Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot. — Karl Pilkington
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings. — Michael Jackson
They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings. — Tablo
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me. — Woody Guthrie
Celebrate your own
special spirit
fly on the wings
of your secret dreams — Laurel Burch
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. — Saadi Shirazi
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Sun Quotes
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. — Isaac Newton
Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. — Muhammad Ali
Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun — Hafez
There are two gifts we should give our children, one is roots and the other is wings
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. — Galileo Galilei
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is winging it. To suggest otherwise is delusional.
In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever. — Sheila Carey
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is. — J. Cole
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. — Unknown Author
Wings Of Fire Quotes
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness. — Abdul Kalam
A child without education, is like a bird without wings.
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
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain. — Johan Huizinga
High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven. — Lucius Beebe
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe. — Douglas Adams
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying...and every day on the balcony of the sea wings open fire is born and everything is blue again like morning. — Pablo Neruda
Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
Daughter of Elysium!
Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
Goddess, to thy shrine we come.
Thy sweet magic brings together
What stern Custom spreads afar;
All men become brothers
Where thy happy wing-beats are. — Friedrich Schiller
It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work. — Theodore Parker
Wings To Fly Quotes
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
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
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wing and put compensation as a carrier behind it. you almost don't have to manage them.
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
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
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. — Pope Pius XII
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them. — Jonas Salk
Angel Wings Quotes
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 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
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
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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
Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing. — Bob Ross
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly). — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey — Edward Abbey
We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws. — Winona LaDuke
A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down. — Charles Frazier
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. — Winona LaDuke
I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. Even when I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing. — Michelle Obama
A good parent gives their child roots and wings. — Jonas Salk
Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings. — Jana Kramer
Broken Wings Quotes
A broken wing simply means, you have to find another way to fly. Have a wonderful day people. — Kerry Katona
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux
Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years . . .
I sleep and my heart stays awake . . . — Giorgos Seferis
Take these broken wings and learn to fly. — Paul McCartney
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction! — Andy Biersack
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
My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing. — Bob Dylan
I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings. — Tupac Shakur
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles. — Eugene V. Debs
I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight. — Andrea Gibson
Listen to the long stillness:
New life is stirring
New dreams are on the wing
New hopes are being readied:
Humankind is fashioning a new heart
Humankind is forging a new mind
God is at work.
This is the season of Promise — Howard Thurman
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
People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all. — Ziauddin Yousafzai
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. — Miguel de Cervantes
The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life. — Pearl Primus
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
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. — William Shakespeare
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of wings quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about wings to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of wings quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
