Quotes About Flight

If you want fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down!

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.

What are you doing to me?" he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. "I can't fly!" You're flying right now. "I'm falling!" Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.

She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

He had forgotten how to soar upon the wings of his soul...

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

I want to fly for the rest of a very long life.

Cliff swallows come back to Capistrano Mid-March. It takes them 3 weeks to fly 7,000 miles from Goya, Argentina.

The day after that, the task unit and their single Bandito Platoon squad mustered at the North Island Naval Air Station for the flight that would take them west, halfway around the world. Actually

This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Take a Leap! Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew… GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Avant-garde French poet

We are each of us angels with only one thing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo

In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles.

In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.

We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap?

Sure, we sparkled and glittered and flew through the world, but it was only an illusion of flight. We were trapped in the orbit of a man who was no longer truly there.

He went way up in the air and when he came down again, he got up and ran away. But he stopped at the corner, Angel says. And died.