
“Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!”
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)
“A man without ambition is like a bird without wings”
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/14/wings/
Bequest of Pavlov to the Academic Youth of His Country. Science, Vol. 83, Issue 2155, pg. 369 (1936)
“Friendship is Love without wings.”
L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.”
"A Martian Sends a Postcard Home", line 1; first published in The New Statesman, December 23 and 30, 1977.