Wings

Famous quotes containing the word wings:

    The wings of Time are black and white,
    Pied with morning and with night.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)