Quotes About Flight

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The man who has no imagination, has no wing

If you have dreams, we give them wings

a life without dreams, is like a bird without wings

Eagles can fly higher than other birds, but a small sparrow can evade much better and has a better chance to survive, if falls off the height. (Sentence from my ebook, Tora-Bora mountains)

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn't landed yet

Everyone Wants to Be as Free as a Bird, but None is so Freely

Go, and be as the butterfly

Alice likes to swing as high as she can. At the schoolyard on the big swings there, I think maybe she's going to go all the way over the top. I can read her mind when she swings. I know she's thinking about jumping out and flying away when she swings that high. Flying to California. She doesn't say anything about it.

Huge up-draughts – invisible forces – tossed our little plane like it was an insect.

Janet Beeler Shaw

Nothing, however, is certain except uncertainty and there is always interference in the lines of flight.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

From outer darkness to outer darkness, a feathered meteor through a moment of light...

Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.

He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.

Escape may be checked by water and land, but the air and the sky are free.

Escape may be checked by water and land, but the air en sky are free. -Daedalus

There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears. But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them: the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight.