(366 quotes found)
“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”
George MacDonald
“I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!”
Georgia Douglas Johnson
“Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.”
Jean Rhys
“I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.”
Bob Dylan
“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing”
Christopher Fry
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
William Shakespeare
“I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing”
Jimmy Page
“How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“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.”
Victor Hugo
