Wings
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, 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.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
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.