Quotes About Flight

Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

I have never been to Australia, because the flight terrifies me, but I think I would like to go there one day.

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

Entonces el ruiseñor voló sobre el rosal que crecía alrededor del reloj de sol.

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

Para mi corazón basta tu pecho, para tu libertad bastan mis alas.»

In you the wars and the flights accumulated, From you the wings of the songbirds rose.

Para mi corazón basta tu pecho, para tu libertad bastan mis alas.

Pero solo tu voz escucho y sube tu voz con vuelo y precisión de flecha, baja tu voz con gravedad de lluvia, tu voz esparce altísimas espadas, vuelve tu voz cargada de violetas y luego me acompaña por el cielo.

When I write, I wait for the sudden appearance of signs and portents in the air, always on the lookout for secret messages encoded in graffiti or heralds disguised as strangers in the club cars of trains. A bright encounter with twins, a brother and sister, on a morning flight to Rome changed the entire configuration of the Wingo family in The Prince of Tides.

It was easy, after all, simply to open the door and escape. It was easy, she thought, because she was not really escaping at all.

1) they move against us: attack; (2) they move away from us: abandonment; (3) they move toward us: love. In the context of a sinful, fallen world, our emotional responses to these relational movements can generally be characterized as fight or flight. The following diagram shows how these responses give rise to our difficult emotions.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain.

You just crossed six time zones," the pilot offered.