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Quotes About Flight

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
~ William Shakespeare
We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.
~ Max More
The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
She was bruised from crashing so many times, but she hadn't lost her hunger for flight.
~ A.J. Sky, Firestorm
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
~ Steven Wright
If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.
~ Demetri Martin
We lifted up and then bobbed."Back! Pull it back!" (Christopher)"It's hard." (Kitty)"The ground is harder!" (Christopher)
~ Gini Koch, Touched by an Alien
What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it.
~ Brian Rathbone
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~ Muhammad Ali
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
~ Gelett Burgess
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
~ William Carlos Williams
Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
~ Walter Hagen
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
~ Alexandre Dumas
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
And I'm not sure if it's G-d, or fate, or just air masses colliding over water, but I will say this: It feels, finally, like flying.
~ Una LaMarche, Like No Other
There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see...
~ K. Hari Kumar
I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.
~ Phyllis T. Smith
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
~ Martha Graham
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.
~ R. Kelly
To fly we have to have resistance.
~ Maya Lin
People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.
~ Michael Jordan