Clip Wings Quotes

#1. Deep down, most humans prefer living out their lives surrounded by comfortable certainties, guided by warm myths and metaphors, knowing that they'll understand their children, and their children will understand them. - Author: David Brin

#2. I've encountered my fair share of war reenactors over the years, but I've never seen a reenactment of this banal predicament: a tired woman in a dark house answering a child who is supposed to be asleep that she has no idea when Daddy's coming home. - Author: Sarah Vowell

#3. Try to clip my wings, and God's angels will carry me, because I'm destined to fly, and even you cant stop destiny. - Author: Anja Pruitt

#4. I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly. - Author: Ziauddin Yousafzai

#5. said, "because he was at the British Museum. - Author: Dodie Smith

#6. I will be the stronger of the knowledge. In warning there is strength. - Author: Lew Wallace

#7. The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough. - Author: Albert Brooks

#8. I'm coming into this embracing that wild spirit in you. I don't want to clip your wings. I want to fly with you. - Author: Lisa Kessler

#9. If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity. - Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. 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. - Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

#11. Cradling her face with one hand, he said, "I won't ever clip your wings, baby." Regardless of how much he hated the fact that she was in danger - because to do so would be to put her back in that cage, and his mate had spent more than enough time locked in the dark. - Author: Nalini Singh

#12. Why give up before we try
Feel the lows before the highs
Clip our wings before we fly away
I can't say I came prepared
I'm suspended in the air
Won't you come be in the sky with me - Author: Alicia Keys

#13. There's always someone following your next step. - Author: Cindy Margolis

#14. You will do it because you know that knowledge is beautiful, and because if only a hundred people share your passion, that is enough. - Author: Ben Goldacre

#15. It is much better to earn a living with a pen than with power, - Author: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#16. 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. - Author: Ziauddin Yousafzai

#17. 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. - Author: Elton John

#18. My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet. - Author: Adam Lambert

#19. Remember, every treasure comes with a price. - Author: Kevin Kwan

#20. 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. - Author: Janusz Korczak

#21. I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it. - Author: Max Lucado

#22. There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. - Author: John Keats

#23. Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don't take anything away. A relationship shouldn't impose limits - and if it does, then it's wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings. - Author: Ann Aguirre

#24. Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U.S. Senate - Author: Herman Melville

#25. As a negative thought hovers in your mind, clip its wings. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure. - Author: Robin Sieger