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“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.”

Feels Stills Animal Knowing Bird Wings Branches Frail Bending Birds Wings

Author:Victor Hugo

“Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.”

Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc

“Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.”

People Want Kind Nature Bird Wings Envy Mobility Birds Wings

Author:Roger Tory Peterson

“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.”

Littles Moments Nature Boys Bird Concerned Equality Little Boys Sparrows Bird Watching Singing Birds Birds Wings

Book:GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Source: GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”

“As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.”

Reality Imagination Air Beats Bird Wings Flight Birds Wings

Book:Imaginations

Source: Imaginations

“Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.”

Men Would Be Turns Moral Bird Devil Angel Wings Bats Feathers Deterioration Membranes Birds Wings

Book:The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

Source: The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”

“When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.”

Eye Faces Fall Saws Wonderful Mets Bird Wings Falling In Love Face To Face Birds Wings

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

“Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)