Quotes About Flight

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

Where by books go by W.B. Yeats All the words that I utter, And all the words that I write, Must spread out their wings untiring, And never rest in their flight, Till they come where your sad, sad heart is, And sing to you in the night, Beyond where the waters are moving, Storm-darken'd or starry bright.

Por qué? ¿Y por qué no tenemos plumaje ni alas, sino solamente omoplatos, las bases para las alas? Porque ya no necesitamos alas: porque tenemos aviones y las alas solamente nos estorbarían.

Why? But why don't we have feathers? Or Wings? Nothing but the shoulder blades where wings would be attached? Why, because we no longer need wings. We've got aeros. Wings would only be in the way. Wings are for flying, but we have nowhere to fly to, we've already flown there, we've found it.

The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and then rushes down to the ground. It is the same with a man when in his final convulsion he takes a last deep breath and dies.

He who, superior to the checks of nature, Dares make his life the victim of his reason, Does in some sort that reason deify, And take a flight at heav'n.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty--like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?

There's no doubt that he'll be heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty—like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?

Abbasso il muso dell'aereo e mi avvento sul bersaglio. Non posso mancarlo. Il coraggio è soltanto guardare guardare guardare. Senza chiudere gli occhi nemmeno per un istante.

Birds fly not because the have a right to fly, but because they have wings.

Birds fly not because they have a right to fly, but because they have wings. And

David, I'll fly for you, if you'll love me!" "Fly, then." "I can't fly, but love me anyway." "Poor wingless child!" "Is it so hard to love me?" "Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?

There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.

Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.

Let me fly with the wings of love or let me drown and die in the love.

What is a question but a moment of discontent in pursuit of understanding? What is an answer but a moment of illusion in our flight from ignorance?

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

They lifted up and drifted beyond the ledge, the world opening up beneath them.

The thought has occurred to me that maybe you'll only start flying when you absolutely need to,

The sparrow flies south for winter.

Before we go," he said, and hugged her, "it is so, so good to see you again, Valkyrie." Then he picked her up, and they flew.