Quotes About Flight

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that sh... Wanna fly, you got to give up the sh.. that weighs you down.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

E-o pasare ce-i spunem Bate-Vant. Ea da din aripi fara a zbura, De parca zborul ei inseamna a sta In aer, suspendata de un punct.

De todos modos preparamos la boca por si vuela un beso y si no vuela siempre queda uno que emerge del olvido.

You think of yourself -- light, fast, free -- free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.

But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.

locked in self-preservation ("I am threatened and must do anything I can to survive")

The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap, and when he jumped up, his head hit the switch.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.

What do you do when you're in a room of vampires and the most dangerous one tells you that youknow too much? You bolt. What did I do? I hyperventilated.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon »morgen«.

The only victory over love is flight.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

May your love soar on the wings of a dove in flight