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Quotes About Flight

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
~ Arthur Ashe
The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.
~ Patti Smith
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
~ Paul Theroux
Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.
~ Douglas Fairbanks
Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!
~ Lord Byron
Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
~ Emily Dickinson
I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.
~ George Clooney
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
~ Amelia Earhart
Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.
~ Gordon Cooper
All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.
~ Stephen Coonts
Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.
~ Gary Wright
What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
~ Elon Musk
Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.
~ Ruzwana Bashir
Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.
~ Igor Sikorsky
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
~ Neil Armstrong
I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
We are about to change history, said Saphira. We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)
~ Christopher Paolini
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
~ Otto Lilienthal
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
~ William James
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
~ F. L. Lucas
Hope is a thing with feathers
~ Emily Dickinson