“The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 15

“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 338.

“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene,”
Ulysses (1922)
Context: It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness... (271)

Speech to the Bar Association of Boston, in Speeches (1913), p. 85.
1910s

Cage the Songbird, written by Elton John, Bernie Taupin, and Davey Johnstone
Song lyrics, Blue Moves (1976)