Quotes with wings

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  • Colley Cibber Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
    Colley Cibber
    English actor-manager, playwright and poet (1671 - 1757)
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  • George Eliot Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Bela Karolyi The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Ghose Aurobindo The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
    Ghose Aurobindo
    Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist (1872 - 1950)
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  • Denis Waitley The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali The man who has no imagination has no wings.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Joubert There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Augustus Hare There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Chief Seattle There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Antonio Porchia Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Alan Cohen View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross.
    View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam 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.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
    Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Habite
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Wallace We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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