
“The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“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
“My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.”
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day (1842)
Context: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring <br/> And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; <br/> For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, <br/> Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
Context: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
“His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.”
On John Dryden (1828)
“Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.”
The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).