Got Wings Quotes

#1. Those bitter sorrows of childhood!
when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

George Eliot

#2. Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot ...

Karl Pilkington

#3. And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

James Webb Young

#4. I'm a pixy, Rachel. I may look all tough and stuff, but I got wings, and I know infatuation when I see it.

Kim Harrison

#5. I let out a gasp at the surprise with him getting to me so fast. It was kind of dating superman in that way, and instead of the cape and spandex, I got wings and a Armani suit!

Stephanie Hudson

#6. He thought, I got wings on my eyes, and the thought was so odd and yet so pleasing to him that he felt suddenly that he was immensely special, that there could be no one like him in the world.

Deborah Treisman

#7. Maybe the point isn't whether or not you become a moth or a butterfly. Maybe the point is that, either way, you've got wings.

Autumn Doughton

#8. I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

Tom Petty

#9. I have an EP coming soon with Cardo. It's called 'Glizzy Got Wings.' I love his sound, and he loves mine.

Shy Glizzy

#10. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you ... When it works, baby, you've got wings.

Keith Richards

#11. I remember once seeing a guy in the grocery store who looked so much like my character the Archangel Gabriel, I wanted to go up to him and say, 'Hey, put that Red Bull down. You've already got wings.' My friend had to sternly remind me that he was a stranger and I did not, in fact, create him.

Alexandra Adornetto

#12. I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.

Tony Shalhoub

#13. Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground

Hiromu Arakawa

#14. I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself.
I'm the only one I would put through this.
Wheels and wings,
The ride is everything.
I'm all I've got.
I'm all I can take.
Another day has destroyed a part of me.
So far so good.

Henry Rollins

#15. I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and then I went into combat at 19. And I think, as I look back on it, that whole experience probably shaped my life more than any incident, or any event.

George H. W. Bush

#16. The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

Henry Vaughan

#17. Is that even legal in this country?" "Don't know." Nick looked at him, all innocence and angel wings with those lifted eyebrows. "I may have neglected to declare them at customs. Got them at a specialist event.

Anonymous

#18. I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of me. There was a point where I got a little surly. There were only so many chicken wings I could serve before losing the smile on my face.

Melissa Rauch

#19. I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

Rufus Sewell

#20. Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.

Frances Goodrich

#21. John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

Bradley Whitford

#22. This baby let's me take my low E string from an E Note to a D and back in a flash without having to retune. It can cry like a baby and scream like a devil; it's got angel wings and horns both,and it'll kiss you at the same time it fucks you. Not many dudes can top that,right?

C.M. Stunich

#23. Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

Gore Vidal

#24. When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.

Glenda Millard

#25. Charlie. If someone ever breaks your wings, you just got to find some other way to fly. Show them what you're worth, Charlie. Nobody should set your value but you.

Christine Zolendz

#26. My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

David Miliband

#27. We come into the world out of the dark. We haven't got a clue where we've come from. We've got no idea where we're going. But while we're here in the world, if we're brave enough, we flap our wings and fly.

David Almond

#28. So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal ... The wings are knocking people over ...

Steven Wright

#29. It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.

James McCartney

#30. Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

Elvis Costello

#31. I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.

Ada Lovelace

#32. I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

Henry Miller

#33. In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions ... We've got to buck that trend

Ed Miliband

#34. My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#35. 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

#36. Celebrate who you are and what you stand for. Give wings to your dreams and live your aspirations. You've got only one life- live it in the best way you possibly can.

Roopleen

#37. But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ...

Sanhita Baruah

#38. If you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings

Karl Pilkington

#39. All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Eugene Field

#40. 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

#41. He did something so un-Pucklike, Sabrina couldn't believe it. He got up sat behind her, and let his enormous fairy wings sprout from his back. Then he wrapped them around her to keep the bitter cold away. It was the first truly nice thing the so-called Trickster King had ever done for her.

Michael Buckley

#42. When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

Karl Urban

#43. You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

#44. I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

Sheridan Smith

#45. I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

Tim Gunn

#46. Why? But why don't we have feathers? Or Wings? Nothing but the shoulder blades where wings would be attached? Why, because we no longer need wings. We've got aeros. Wings would only be in the way. Wings are for flying, but we have nowhere to fly to, we've already flown there, we've found it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#47. In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.

Vinnie Jones

#48. That baby has got to learn things
including remaining erect & on deck & all,
her study of herself must include no wings.
She's sturdy, beautiful, & she will do, unless
the universal homage turns her head
as it might well do mine,
hypnotized by the Little Baby ...

John Berryman

#49. Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?

Michelle Malkin