A Quote by Mary Louisa Molesworth

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

Mary Louisa Molesworth

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Die Never Roots Wings

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Mary Louisa Molesworth
English - Writer
May 29, 1839 - January 20, 1921

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

Jonas Salk

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

David Miliband

Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but he has no wings. He cannot fly into the sky. He has roots but no wings.

Rajneesh

Stop calling your akri your daddy. It makes my wings droop. (Xirena) My akri is my daddy. He said so and it is so, so your wings can droop all they want, ‘cause it won’t change anything! (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

Jonas Salk

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Dalai Lama

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

Denis Waitley

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.

Suzy Kassem

I never traced my roots, man. I only know that I'm a brother with a big heart - and that somebody brought my roots over here by way of boat.

Jesse White

To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.

Leonardo da Vinci

?"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey