“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”
Victor Hugo
“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.”
“How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings”
William Blake
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise”
“Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.”
Roger Tory Peterson
