Angelic Figure Quotes

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.

Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides

For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.