Protective Wings

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

On wings of wind came flying all abroad. - Alexander Pope

Would a fly without wings be called a walk? - George Carlin

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - English Proverb

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. - William Henry Hudson

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm gets eaten. - Norman Augustine

The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly. - Unknown

The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

For those determined to fly, having no wings is just a little detail. - Unknown

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. - Robert Lynd

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living - e e cummings

Pigs had just officially sprouted wings and were flying alongside airplanes. - Jennifer L Armentrout

With birds flying around, man's desire for having wings rises to infinite. - Mehmet M Ildan

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

I know of only one bird (the parrot) that talks; and it can't fly very high. - Wilbur Wright

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars... the rest I squandered. - George Best

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz

Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Ingersoll

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings. - Indian Proverb

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds. - M.F. Moonzajer

I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet. - Michael Jordan

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska

We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that could not be built on a larger scale. - Orville Wright

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. - Rodney Dangerfield

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Ogden Nash

The blazing wings of dawn spirited me away, Dragon-swift above the suns-rise, flying to my destiny beyond the clouds. - Marc Secchia

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair. - Chinese Proverb

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone. - Malcolm Muggeridge

If you decide to stop flying, it is wise to hang on to your wings, for you may need them one day, when one of your other qualities turns dangerous. - Am Leach

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo