Quotes About Flight

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

By 1929 a handful of farsighted flight pioneers had concluded that "aviation could not progress until planes could fly safely day or night in almost any kind of weather." Foremost among these was Dr. Jimmy Doolittle, recently armed with a PhD in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In

They had graduated from cloth-and-wood flying machines in the dawn of human flight to steel and aluminum behemoths with thousands of horsepower and terrific firepower;

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths," The Lords of Misrule

What's the fastest speed you ever went in your Spitfire?

Ned and Slime flew over the island,

Do you hear the ticking, Mallory, my brave, foolish, young pilot? Time—it ticks, it runs, it twists, it dilates, shrinks, and kills, and one day for each of us, no matter what we do, it stops. Stops, do you hear me?

Is there any feeling as delicious as the beginning of a new adventure? To be perched upon the precipice of a fresh endeavor, poised for flight, the winds of change ruffling the feathers, ah, that is what it means to be alive!

I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.

Education helps us to grow wings of imagination that allow us to feel free and fly.

A firm ground helps kickstart a long leap of flight. So keep your foundation strong to rise high.

If I were a bird, I will have no feet.

Open your wings, fly toward the sky To live in your dream, even if it is high

Let your dreams fly in the sky of imagination.

It feels wonderful when you fly with hopes and dreams.

Embraced in Isaac's wings, I decided that change wasn't such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn't wait to explore.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

If you want to fly, wear the wing of wisdom.

You already have wings, you just have to trust that you can fly.

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying but the bird has already grown her wings.

With the wings of imagination, don't be afraid to fly.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.