33 Quotes About Spreading Your Wings

Flying a plane is just one way we are able to get moving through the sky. These quotes about spreading your wings highlight the amazement we feel when we start a new venture or experience something we never felt before.

“Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.”

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

“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”

“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”

“Friendship is Love without his wings.”

“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”

“I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile… Be their friend and parent as well. When they’re in trouble, they will come to you first. Don’t try to change their opinion.”

“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.”

“In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.”

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

“Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.”

“Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.”

“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.”

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

“Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.”

“Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.”

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”

“Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.”

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”

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

“The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.”

“The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.”

“The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It’s very heavenly.”

“The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle.”

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”

“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”

“Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.”

“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would 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.”

“When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?”

“Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.”

“You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.”

Making changes in the world around you require a certain depth of desire and willingness to start anew.