Quotes and Sayings About Wings
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Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
-- Aaron Sorkin -
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
-- Abbas ibn Firnas -
But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.
-- Abdellatif Laabi -
We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
-- Aberjhani -
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
-- Aberjhani -
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
-- Abraham Flexner -
There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.
-- Adam Pally -
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
-- Aeschylus -
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
-- Aga Khan III -
I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.
-- Al Franken -
View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
-- Alan Cohen -
What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.
-- Alan Licht -
Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
-- Alan Shearer -
A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So all may enjoy the beautiful sight.
-- Albert Richards -
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings
-- Alejandra Pizarnik -
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.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
-- Alexander Pope -
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
-- Alexander Pope -
And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
-- Alexander Pope -
So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils
