Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneat...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all ...
VICTOR HUGO Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The bird that soars on highest wing,
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And she that doth mo...
JAMES MONTGOMERY Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU What bird so sings, yet does so wail?
O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--
Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
BIBLE It could totally make her really submissive in the future. She feels like she already has to be arou...
EMILY HUGHES None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not ...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not w...
JOHN LYLY She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.
ATTICUS POETRY The caged bird is perched upon her grave of fallen dreams; like the shadows of just one more nightma...
JOHN M SHEEHAN I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ...
AKSHAY VASU She feels the system has failed her. She lost her daughter in such a horrible way and nobody would d...
IVY REAVES Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is y...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It is God who lets the wild apples grow, to satisfy the hungry. He showed her a wild apple-tree, wit...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONET If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: ...
BIBLE A woman of faith is a bird soaring freely over a canyon trusting in the wind to lift her wings when ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
pillars.
BIBLE The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks...
HUBERT MARTIN The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE I coached her through her singing debut, and she did great, ... And, she sings with a spider and wor...
DANNY ELFMAN That was her show there for awhile. I was thinking about giving her a break. She was so hot I couldn...
GERRY ECKENRODE She was sleeping on the bed like a novel that is yet to be read and he sat on the floor, reading her...
AKSHAY VASU Being in her home state, she feels like she has something to prove.
ALI MANN She writes her own music, sings beautifully, she's athletic and has everything going for her.
BRIAN CHALK Rebecca wears her heart on her face. She has been working on that skill for awhile. She has competed...
CARLA PETERSON ... and her singing. She sings all the time while we're driving.
BILL HARRIS She's very disciplined and very organized in the way she works on her golf game and runs her whole l...
LISELOTTE NEUMANN As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them...
BIBLE When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
VICTOR BORGE When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance
VICTOR BORGE She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her...
ERICA SEHYUN SONG She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of sa...
JULIA QUINN A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? ...
ANNE BRONTë Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel u...
LAUREN KATE She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and...
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the star...
ROBERT M. DRAKE We don't want to take a chance on her not feeling well and getting out here and not being able to de...
CARL BAKER The way she curls in my arms makes me feel like I’m the hero. I like being her hero. I like the wa...
KATIE MCGARRY She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortab...
STEPHANIE BOND Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil...
DOROTHY PARKER She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not slee...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
She ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was ...
KHALED HOSSEINI There was too much between them to think of any type of future. Yet, with him standing in front of h...
LAVERNE ST. GEORGE Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings
ANTOINE MERIN LEMIERRE It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social ri...
ERNESTINE ROSE I give thee flight without wings.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing tha...
J.R. RIM She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed h...
ANN BRASHARES But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
And mine that I was proud on--mine so much
Tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, stole in and out,
As if they feared the ligh...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING She's a good ball player. She put her team on her back and carried them all the way back.
JOHN CHANCELLOR ...when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wing...
KATE CHOPIN “Tell her she's beautiful, not hot, remind her the good things she's done, not her mistakes, hug h...
ALFRED SANT Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could...
STEVAN V. NIKOLIC Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discover...
NATALIE BABBITT She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she ...
NIKKI ROWE Feeling sorry for her, I gave her $40 and a hug and a kiss. I sent her on her way not knowing . . .
JANET PELASARA The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was...
VERONICS ROTH She gets a man who will love her completely and faithfully. She gets a man who will not only save he...
QUINN LOFTIS I have a slight memory of being carried down the stairs by my mother. She held me in her left arm, a...
HERBERT HAMROL Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes...
BETTY SMITH The sad and solemn night
Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light
...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT You can close your eyes and think of England, if you like."
"I've never even been to England," ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to pro...
JESSICA SORENSEN My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' an...
BRENDON URIE She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw ...
JANDY NELSON But he was bigger and stronger and his hands reached up behind her to the back of her head, ignoring...
KIMBERLY DERTING She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and cleve...
MELANIE DICKERSON Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her co...
KIERSTEN WHITE Her caramel skin and curly beach sand hair spreads in wavy chops like the choppy storm waves on the ...
AMI BLACKWELDER Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature ma...
GEORGE CHAPMAN years. I kept remembering all the times I’d teased her or called her father a fornicator or simply...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe...
CASSANDRA CLARE The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, ...
DONNA LYNN HOPE She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c...
LISA ZARAN Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN If you like her, tell her. Maybe she likes you too.
DAZZLїиG_Бципу We discussed it on the flight that, when we get there and get our hands on her, we're gonna be scold...
JODI BEARMAN Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
NEIL GAIMAN The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor...
GERMAINE GREER She loved to spend rainy afternoons lost in thought, her hand daydreaming beneath the fabric of her ...
MICHAEL FAUDET We've handled her press, her P.R., and been her travel agent. At some time, she will be on her own. ...
B. J. WIE The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light wal...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
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