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Winged Quotes (page 10)

Kate Chopin quote: "The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition..."
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Kate Chopin
Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Thomas Merton
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words. Vladimir Nabokov
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out. Audre Lorde
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!"
Wraiths! Wraiths on wings! J. R. R. Tolkien
Rumi quote: "Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they..."
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings. Rumi
Coco Chanel quote: "If you were not born with Wings...do nothing to impede their..."
If you were not born with Wings...do nothing to impede their Growth... Coco Chanel
Stare at him," said Ghost. "They won't bite you if you keep staring at them."Steve backed away. "They bite?"Not really. They hiss at you, mostly. The only time geese are ever dangerous is when you happen to be standing on the edge of a cliff. I heard about a guy that almost got killed that way."By geese?"Yeah, there was a whole flock of them coming after him. All hissing and cackling and stabbing at his ankles with their big ol' beaks. He didn't know you had to stare them right in the eye,... Poppy Z. Brite
For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. Socrates
Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies Stephen Colbert
I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. Edgar Allan Poe
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. Annie Dillard
Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darknesslike twin drums beating in the forestagainst the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dreamthat cuts the thread of earthly orbswith the punctuality of a headlong trainthat pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might replyto the sky's questioning starswith... Pablo Neruda
But surely it is something to have been. The best beloved for a little while, To have walked hand in hand with Love, and seen. His purple wings flit once across thy smile. Oscar Wilde

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