Quotes on Birds Wings

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.

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.

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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

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.