Quotes About Flight

Holly kicked up her legs behind her, dropping into a steep dive. Diving was against Recon regulations. All approaches were supposed to be controlled and gradual, but what was the point of flying if you couldn't feel the slipstream tugging at your toes?

Ja, ik zou maar snel wegvliegen, Tweety! - Holly

I was born to fly wherever I like, to live in the open air, to sing whenever I want. You take all this away from me and then say, "What's wrong with you?

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

Then I remembered the Chip, a small experimental board we had built with footstraps, and thought it's dumb not to use this for jumping. That's when I first started jumping with footstraps and discovering controlled flight. I could go so much faster

into the air, but you could land the thing, and not only that, but you could change direction in the air! The whole sport of high-performance

Si tu veux rien voir, tu prends l'avion comme tout le monde.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

There is no doubt that the last hour of any flight is the hardest. If there are any clouds about to make shadows one is likely to see much imaginary land. . . . As I approached shore I strained my eyes to see something recognizable, and there was nothing. However, I noticed a low place in the hills, and I thought, like the bear, I would go over the mountains to see what I could see.

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport....

Don't think of it so much like running away, Mom. Think of it as escaping.

A flight suit. 'Cause you're a big bad pilot, right? You fell out of your helicopter. Now unzip your onesie so you don't bleed to death.

Love changes course and flies away sometimes, that was all.

Wing'd with a Drunken Excellence.

Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

The commercial flight thing, it just gets a little weird when you're standing in line and suddenly you're not just a guy standing in line anymore - you become sort of 'novelty boy.'

My degrees are in physics and space physics, and I did well enough in university that I actually started working at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as a robotics flight controller right after college.