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Quotes About Soaring

Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.
~ Kevin Brady
Raj Kapoor started directing and producing movies while he was at the peak of his career. Aamir Khan has also directed a movie while his career graph was soaring.
~ Nizhalgal Ravi
Let me fly in your own sky, soaring and grasping your tranquil thoughts, touching your dreams with my sincere prayers.
~ Ibaa Younis
The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The bird let loose in eastern skies, When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam; But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadows dim her way.
~ Thomas Moore
To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.
~ Joan Baez
The wings are not representative of angelic status—angels themselves do not have wings, as you have been told. The image of wings is symbolic of soaring beyond beliefs and philosophies not based in truth, but rather based in perceived separation.
~ Suzanne Ward
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
~ Barry Goldwater
You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.
~ Link Wray
What did we talk about that has left me with an impression of wings and flashes, as of air displaced by the flight of a bird? Of swooping and soaring, of a faint iridescence subdued to the enfolding brightness of the day?
~ L.P. Hartley
life is a graceful soaring death a graceful landing
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't just settle for hope — you are the keeper of an amazing silken, glowing, infinite-wingspan, soaring, heart-wildly-beating, singing-out-loud, unstoppable faith, courage, fortitude, spirit & soul that light your life from the inside out!
~ Terri Guillemets, "You," 2006
Denali, the glory of Alaska, soars to more than twenty thousand and is one of the most compelling mountains in the Americas.
~ James A. Michener
I would look down from the Point to see a hawk riding the updrafts from the ridges below me and I would think: I am higher than he is. This is what it's like to fly.
~ Teresa Jordan
But before either of us can speak again, I feel crackle-crackle-crackle. I can't tell what's going to happen next. My seizure begins to spin slowly through me. What will my dad do? Whatever it is, in another moment I'll be flying free. Either way, whatever he does, I'll be soaring.
~ Terry Trueman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying. There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~ Douglas Adams
An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.
~ James Hogg
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...
~ James Joyce
Okay, so, flying," I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. "Flying is … great. It feels great when you're doing it. It's fun. Pure freedom. There's nothing better." Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face. "So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.
~ James Patterson
Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains
~ D?gen
Happiness was a little like flying a kite, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out-
~ Patricia Highsmith
Happiness was a little like flying, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out.
~ Patricia Highsmith
It is in the mountains that the eagles dwell
~ Leo Tolstoy
Launched from tiny ankles, their legs shot up like guided missiles into atmospheres of private height.
~ Leonard Cohen