Top 74 Quotes About Flying Wings
#1. Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought
Edmund Spenser
#3. The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying.
Francis Bacon
#4. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
Coco Chanel
#5. He screamed in agony as large black wings erupted from his back - each had four large talons on it.
Alan Kinross
#7. Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying-chariot through the fields of air.
Erasmus Darwin
#8. Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.
Jeffrey Osborne
#9. Because no matter how far you may travel, you are what you are, and even when you are flying at thrilling new heights, circling the sun and thinking you belong in the halo of that perfect golden light, you do not. The wings always melt, and you always crash-land in your same old self.
Jeff Lindsay
#10. Can I love someone ... and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
Susan Sontag
#11. 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
#12. The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!
Edgar Lee Masters
#13. Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying.
George Eliot
#14. Hope was like frogs praying for wings so they didn't bump their asses when they hopped. But there weren't any flying fucking frogs!
Sherri Desbois
#16. Can I look at my feet now?" "No. A bird never looks at its wings while it's flying. If it did, it would realize it's doing something utterly impossible, and fall to the ground.
Suzanne Enoch
#18. You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.
"Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.
Roald Dahl
#19. I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.
Michael Jordan
#21. And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.
Milan Kundera
#22. They were coming, on wings from far away, all the pictures and voices, smells, tastes, all the everything from the past was flying toward me as fast as it could.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#23. Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
J.M. Barrie
#25. Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Francis Bacon
#26. Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying but the bird has already grown her wings.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Time has wings it is flying but it has no shape, no colour ,no dimension so it is invisible.
Syed Afroz Alam
#28. She flew across the turbulent gust.
Her eyes fixed, her wings strong
She flies and flies and flies along.
To reach high, to open her wings to the breathing sun rise.
Debatrayee Banerjee
#29. With birds flying around, man's desire for having wings rises to infinite!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. Cara: *Flies*
Gen: What? I don't have wings!
Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
Jim Henson
#31. Gabrielle breathes, holding me close, "you're the reason I had wings, Erin. My whole life, from the beginning of time . . . I was always flying toward you.
Bridget Essex
#32. I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.
John Zakour
#33. Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?
Lev Grossman
#34. The blazing wings of dawn spirited me away, Dragon-swift above the suns-rise, Flying to my destiny beyond the clouds.
Marc Secchia
#35. 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
#36. It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.
C. JoyBell C.
#37. I have wings on the back of my shoulders,
and I'm ready to fly.
Pamela L. Laskin
#38. Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life.
Debasish Mridha
#39. If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. How wonderful it must be, I thought, to be able to just spread your wings whenever you like without someone following you around trying to swat you out of the sky.
Gina Holmes
#41. I need wings," said Total, still sniffling. "I need my own wings. Then things like that wouldn't happen."
Yeah, that was all I needed. A flying talking mutant dog.
James Patterson
#42. When we were born, we were thrown off to land on earth. The successful kept calm and created their wings on their way down. The losers were busy complaining against the creator why he did not give wings to them knowing they had to fly.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#43. I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.
Janice Mirikitani
#44. Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.
Laline Paull
#45. You need your speace to strech your wings.You will learn in the due time to fly higher.
K.J. Kilton
#46. If you decide to stop flying, it is wise to hang on to your wings, for you may need them one day, when one of your other qualities turns dangerous.
Amy Leach
#47. She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.
Natalia Marx
#48. Yes, Icarus fell to earth after flying too close to the sun, but what a glorious fall it must have been. Almost worth the flaming wings tied to his arms, waving helplessly in a shower of
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.
Yves Rossy
#50. Some days my thoughts are just cocoons
all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine
such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.
Karle Wilson Baker
#51. Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
Plautus
#52. She dreamed of escape - of growing wings like a bird and flying away from the palace, never to return. But, alas, she was a bird still locked tightly in her cage.
Morgan Rhodes
#53. Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
C. JoyBell C.
#54. An extraordinary lightness seemed to spread through his whole body and the next second, in a rush of wings, they were flying upward through the pipe. Harry could hear Lockhart dangling bellow him, saying, Amazing! Amazing! This is just like magic!
J.K. Rowling
#55. Pain has been and grief enough and bitterness and crying,
Sharp ways and stony ways I think it was she trod;
But all there is to see now is a white bird flying,
Whose blood-stained wings go circling high - circling up to God!
Margaret Widdemer
#56. If you're thinking of flying, Sparrow, know that I will catch you. There is no escape. Fly until your wings fall off, until there's no more sky, but I will find you. I will always find you.
Leighton Del Mia
#57. The force of the wind is like an angry sea. It is freezing. The machine putters through the air. I am floating, the sky flowing past me, flowing through me. The only sound is the wind swishing across the wings.
I am flying.
John Owen Theobald
#58. World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.
Tanith Lee
#59. Sitting makes us think of standing
Our current stance keeps on demanding
We wish to fly without the wings
Puppets move before pulling the strings
Munia Khan
#60. Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.
Ruben Studdard
#61. They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!
James Patterson
#62. The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.
Plato
#63. She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.
J.J. Brown
#64. We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God ...
Phil Collins
#65. Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back
"Is that what you'd do with wings?"
She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back
Mary E. Pearson
#66. 1970, someone repeated to him something that Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas had said: "Life is walking on the wire; the rest is waiting in the wings.
Neile Adams McQueen
#67. I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset ... almost pays for the thud.
L.M. Montgomery
#68. I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.
Charles Darwin
#69. Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky!
Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly!
Jasmine Jean
#71. I can almost feel the wind beneath my wings; I can almost taste the thrill of flying away from this small town and never looking back.
Tessa Emily Hall
#72. In the dark days of your life, you will need the wings of hope to continue flying.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.
Dwight Longenecker
#74. When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.
Arthur M. Wellington
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