Quotes About Flight

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

God bless and help all the victims and patriots of 9/11, from the families of Flight 93 passengers to those who were in the Pentagon and Twin Towers as well as others who have fought and presently fight the war on terror.

I don't really put cars in my videos because I'm always flying or on a tour bus.

I try to find happiness in almost anything... watching videos about new exercises, like ones you can do on a flight when you clench your buttocks.

In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

free as the Canada geese that pass by

Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer! Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night!

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

I'm a shaky traveler, she said. I can't even sleep through a flight, I have to be awake for the crash.

Although it felt much longer, within a few seconds the pilot came over the loudspeaker. He spoke in German and Roxanne couldn't discern much from the tone of his voice. Then she heard the passengers who could understand him audibly gasp. This made her even more frightened. Finally, in somewhat broken English, the pilot announced that airspace over the United States was closed and he had been ordered to land in Gander, Newfoundland. He offered no further explanation.

If you dive down deep enough there are no words to bring you up. Not my problem. If you fly too high there are no words to help you land. I went back to my land of bears and learned to bob like an apple on the river's surface.

Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion, 1997)

As a pilot I know, that if you are flying from point a to point b and a big storm blocks your way, you don't just barrel on through. You either land or do a 180 and go back to point a.

the most beautiful things I had ever seen had all been seen from airplanes.

Cominci a scappare e sarai in fuga per sempre»

O espírito, como um pássaro, não se lhe deu da corrente dos anos, arrepiou o vôo na direção da fonte original, e foi beber da água fresca e pura, ainda não mesclada do enxurro da vida.

I came to understand that in the United States, land of the fabled American dream, it is un-American to be a refugee. The refugee embodies fear, failure, and flight. Americans of all kinds believe that it is impossible for an American to become a refugee, although it is possible for refugees to become Americans and in that way be elevated one step closer to heaven.

I came to understand that in the United States, land of the fabled American dream, it is un-American to be a refugee. The refugee embodies fear, failure, and flight.

The jet is a great invention. Besides being a world shrinker, par excellence, it has much of the quality and charm of a roller coaster. And it's big. Once, years ago, on a ten-stop, cross-country air trip, I turned to the man next to me and said, quite genuinely: "What keeps these big goddam things up in the air?

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.