Quotes About Flight

Many white men could not trust things unless they could be explained; and yet the most beautiful things, such as the trackless flight of birds, could never be explained.

Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said. "You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ...

Chodzenie przemenia nas w motyle, które wznoszÄ… siÄ™ ponad ziemiÄ… i widzÄ…, jaki naprawdÄ™ jest Å›wiat.

Keep it. It is thine," she said as he rose with the diamond between his thumb and fingers. "A token." She was smiling. Glowing, her eyes shining with tears of elation. "So thou wilt not forget her flight.

Anxiety, she thought, was like a flock of birds on a telephone line. When people came around they flapped off, and when the people went away they hopped back on.

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether. These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

I guess I'm just afraid of whats going to happen. Because you can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

In lieu of Tasers, you'll have to hit me. Hard as you can. Then maybe some kind of fight-or-flight response will kick in and I'll turn into a bat to get away from you. Fight or flight. Yes. Only half of that is flight.

Fire became an enemy only if you couldn't move.

splashed amidst a pillow-fight of pigeons

As she fell, she was reminded of that line from one of Douglas Adams' books, where he described flying as the ability to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Valkyrie rushed towards the ground, and missed splendidly.

The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity. —Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate

master. "There's the Shenandoah," Janine said, after they'd been flying about half an hour.

There is no resistance to Satan other than flight. Every struggle against lust in one's own strength is doomed to failure. Flee—that can indeed only mean, Flee to that place where you find protection and help flee to the Crucified.

According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly.

Darkness at high altitude, the midflight quietude, always makes him think of the bottom of the ocean. There's a submarine quality to the experience, a sense of dredging the bottom instead of scraping up against the stratosphere.