Quotes About Flight

And out the door she flew

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

There is nothing better in life than sliding down snow before flying through the air.

The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

Knowledge is Life with wings

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

But in those days, I thought that by believing in magic and miracles, by believing hard enough, harder than anyone on earth, I would be made witness to the sublime. And so, what I was doing on the rooftop was praying. I was praying for the gift of flight, for the black umbrella and the hidden angels to aid me.

When my father saw my bloody elbows and knees, he tried to talk me out of flying. "People aren't cut out for it," he explained. "Our bodies are designed all wrong." I didn't believe him. He was the one who had told me about bumblebees, how their wings were too flimsy to support their fat bodies; yet, in the summer, they were everywhere, buzzing impossibly by.

I must say, at this juncture, that I don't like fighting. I prefer passive resistance and, if that doesn't work, active fleeing.

Make no mistake, Concorde was an extraordinary technological achievement. Almost certainly, one of the greatest.

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.

Ever let your parakeet out of its cage? My parakeet will fly across the room, right into the mirror. . . . He will hit that mirror: Bang! He's so stupid. Even if he thought the mirror was another room, you'd think he'd try to avoid hitting the other parakeet.

Se desprendió, se soltó de la baranda del puente, su cuerpo levito, sobre la nada.

This started off as a father-daughter adventure, and it's gotten wonderfully out of hand...I'm going to fly till I die.

The need for speed and newness, which can only be satisfied by consumerism, reflects restlessness, the inner flight from oneself.

Fear lent me wings. - Godfrey

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

Then that the afternoon should come; that it should come flying.

Imagination—that's the key word here. With your affairs, the arousal starts on your flight over there. You don't need the blue pill because what turns you on is the plot, the planning, the carefully chosen clothes. All the anticipation is what fuels the desire. When you come home and the first thing you do is take off your nice clothes and put on old sweatpants, nobody's going to get turned