Quotes About Flight

She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing what she had long suspected she could do, and she could not deny that it was gratifying in the extreme.

Farfallina, bella e bianca, vola vola, mai si stanca, gira qua, e gira la- poi si resta sopra un fiore, e poi si resta sopra un fiore... Butterfly, beautiful and white, fly and fly, never get tired, turn here and turn there- she rests upon a flower... and she rests upon a flower.

Corría como si para ella fuera algo natural. Recordó el vuelo de los patos salvajes en otoño. Igual de fluido y uniforme. Le vino a la cabeza la palabra «hermosa» pero la rechazó y apresuró el paso hacia casa.

She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn.

But not a day has slipped by these past hundred years that I haven't recollected my final flight. And now, on the eve of their centenary, here in the darkened museum—Sergeant Stubby asleep beside me, climate-controlled air sighing around us—those events replay behind these glass eyes that I can never close.

Unlike some species—crows, cowbirds, cuckoos—pigeons are not vengeful. But some part of me was eager to take to the air on behalf of these slaughtered birds, if not to avenge their deaths then to fly for the side that hadn't committed such an atrocity.

So in that dark and tangled night, the chaw of chaws rose to flight, with talons bloodied, feathers singed. A battle won - a war begins!

Could he climb, using his talons and beak?

With his capacity for flight came grimmer moods, and the blackness of his depressions filled the air as pervasively as music did in his better periods. Within a year or so of moving to California, my father's moods were further blackening, and I felt helpless to affect them.

Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.

One part of my brain, soaring on adrenaline, insisted I could take Cain, whatever the size difference. Another part wondered where the hell Nick and Clay were. The loudest part just shouted: Run, you idiot, run!

estaban locos por los aeroplanos, y soñaban con ser pilotos.

Un hombre creyó que podía volar, así que saltó de la azotea de un edificio de diez plantas

Se sentía como si volara, o como si soñara; como si hubiera dado un enorme trago de vodka.

y eso le hacía sentirse un hombre nuevo, una criatura diferente, un ave del cielo.

flight, its upper and lower wings spread wide, its toy-car wheels resting lightly on the grass, its long tail tapering behind. The weather was fine with gentle breezes, and the little aircraft trembled in the wind

She knew she was not going to sleep, as surely as she knew she was not going to fly out of the window.

kept in the laboratory for varying periods before being implanted in the women's wombs." Why did this happen to me? Why couldn't I be like everyone else? "They're closing the flight, I have to go." "I want to see you. I'll

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull's wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

This is your captain speaking," Kazaklis said brightly. "On behalf of Strangelove Airlines and your flight crew I'd like to welcome you aboard our Stratocruiser flight to Irkutsk...

The very ratsInstinctively have quit it.