Wing Beats Quotes

#1. Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.

Friedrich Schiller

#2. I found this butterfly dead on our porch a few weeks ago. I have pressed it. It's one of those whose wing beats you loved best. You once said it reminded you of my heartbeat. None sounded sweeter.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#3. The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

Coventry Patmore

#4. I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next.

Christina Aguilera

#5. I'm fascinated by people in general and what interests them, what it is that someone connects to or what it is that they're passionate about.

Juliet Landau

#6. The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

Michael Palin

#7. I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#8. I was hoping Tiny might scoop us up and give us a ride. That seemed like the proper thing to do for travelers who'd just had a hit-and-run with your shoestring.

Rick Riordan

#9. Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.

Lauren Kate

#10. When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Haruki Murakami

#11. These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.

Brian P. Cleary

#12. An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.

Will Self

#13. You gotta know where you were to know where you are.

Emmitt Smith

#14. I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

Bud Selig

#15. I think perhaps education doesn't do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

Barack Obama

#16. La di da di, we likes to party
We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.

Slick Rick

#17. The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.

Lailah Gifty Akita