Quotes About Flight

Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.

After the feet of beauty fly my own.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

Ils partiront. Ils abandonneront tout. Ils fuiront. Rien n'aura su les retenir

I need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-table?' For although images of this murder now surrounded him, and the parts of the body had become emblems of pursuit, violence and flight, they were as broken and indistinct as the sounds of a quarrel in a locked room.

Okay, before we do this, do you all know which Loculi you're carrying?" Aliyah asked. I adjusted my pack and stood. "I have Language and Flight." "Invisibility and Healing," Cass said. "Bert and Ernie," Marco said. Aliyah glared at him. "Okay. Underwater Breathing and Teleportation," Marco said. "Then let's roll," I said. Aliyah

Only in a perfect flight from nothingness is Being to be found in all its purity. —St. Bonaventura

Aveva detto una volta a Serafina Pekkala che a lui volare non importava, che era soltanto un lavoro come un altro, ma non parlava sul serio. Levarsi in alto, con un buon vento alle spalle e un nuovo mondo davanti: cosa poteva esserci di meglio in questa vita?

By the time they fired their second shot, the balloon was almost out of range, hurtling up into the blue and speeding out over the sea. Lee felt his heart lift with it. He'd said once to Serafina Pekkala that he didn't care for flying, that it was only a job, but he hadn't meant it. Soaring upwards, with a fair wind behind and a new world in front: what could be better in this life?

Por él habría cambiado mi naturaleza. Me habría olvidado del titilar de las estrellas y de la música de la aurora, no habría vuelto a volar en mi vida (...)pero uno no puede cambiar lo que es, lo único que puede cambiar es lo que hace.

Mientras volaba en silencio volvió la vista atrás, como si le persiguiera su miedo. Edmund Spenser

Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, "Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash.

On a recent flight from Tokyo to Beijing, at around the time that my lunch tray was taken away, I remembered that I needed to learn Mandarin. "Goddamnit," I whispered. "I knew I forgot something.

I need to touch the person's head again. Experience has taught me that you can do this three times before the head's owner either yells at you or rings for the flight attendant.

So, how was your flight? This, as if there are interesting variations and you might answer, The live orchestra was a nice touch, or The first half was great, but then they let a baby take over the controls and it got all bumpy.

Or of the pilot who somberly said as he turned off the seat belt sign at the end of a flight, "All rise.

As a business traveler, you'll likely be met at your destination by someone who asks, "So, how was your flight?" This, as if there are interesting variations and you might answer, "The live orchestra was a nice touch," or "The first half was great, but then they let a baby take over the controls and it got all bumpy." In fact, there are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.

Some of my additions to the list were things that Ronnie wasn't familiar with. "We're all going to the same place," for instance. This is what novice fliers in group five say when they get caught trying to board with group two. Sure, we're all headed to St. Louis. The difference is that some people (me) are going to find room in the overhead bins and others (you) are not.

In fact, there are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.

Even in the face of something like gravity, one can jump at least three or four feet in the air and even though gravity will drag us back to the earth again, it is in the moment we are three or four feet in the air that we experience true freedom.

Love is what it takes to fly

Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson] Lord Buddha was your gospel true? True and False. What was true in it? Selflessness and Love. What false? Flight from Life.

Then he took off with ponderous flight and circled and lowered, circled and lowered until the others danced in joy and hunger at his approach.