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«There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.»
«Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.»
Author: Langston Hughes
(Essayist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
bird, broken, die, dreams, fly, flying bird, fly by, fly on, Fly The, How to Fly, let fly, on the fly, on the wing, winged
«I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world»
«Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bank, blue sky, ducks, on the wing, pond, ponds, the pond, wing
«News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.»
«I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
altruistic, bird-on-the-wing, confess, cynically, infinitely, in focus, on that, on the wing, selfish, unreal, whatsoever, wing
«A book is like a man / clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.»
«I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
| Keywords:
Angel, a bit, bit, bite out, bit by bit, No Angel, on the wing, spread, spread over, wings
«Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
charm, charmed, flight, gaieties, gaiety, gives, imagination, in flight, law, moral, music, on the wing, take flight, the universe, universe, wings
«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.»
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