Quotes About Clipped Wings

#1. Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

Dante Alighieri

#2. I was caged by him like a bird with clipped wings. I could flutter but I couldn't escape though I'm not certain I'd want to even if I could.

Paloma Beck

#3. How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

Peter S. Beagle

#4. The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

Emma Watson

#5. I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.

Neil Gaiman

#6. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

Roy Bennett

#7. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Christopher Paolini

#8. People who have Jesus abiding in them lack absolutely nothing.

Bud McCord

#9. I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

Chris Isaak

#10. I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it.

Clint Eastwood

#11. Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

Robert Dallek

#12. Love is about all the changes you make, and not just three small words

Frank Turner

#13. Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present.

Simone De Beauvoir

#14. Then that the afternoon should come; that it should come flying.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.

Holly Cupala

#16. Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving.

Meinrad Craighead

#17. The often-used phrase "pay attention" is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

Daniel Kahneman

#18. Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#19. The cage of circumstances suddenly did not feel so confined. It felt less lonely knowing we both have had our wings clipped.

Elise Icten

#20. If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings. It's more like a telegram, a verbal semaphore. Amputated speech.

Margaret Atwood

#21. The chickens don't remember that their wings were clipped...They just can't fly anymore, and they don't remember why or even that they once could."

-a bit of conversation between Ginny and her grandmother in The Memory of Flight

Debra Bowling

#22. You are not a lost cause. You are a hawk who has had her wings clipped for so long that she had forgotten to fly. But when they fully heal and you are let out of the cage, you are going to soar, Alyssa, so high above everyone else that we will be just dots below, forever forgotten. ~Caleb

Kristi Strong