Quotes About Flight

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.

Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked