Wings Quotes - Page 3

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine.

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

She soars on her own wings.

Angels are always with you. You're never alone, especially in your time of need. Listen in stillness for our guidance, which comes upon wings to your heart, mind, and body. Our messages always speak of love.

A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come.

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?