Wings Quotes

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

An angel of God never has wings.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.