Quotes About Flight

The plane turned onto the runway, amid noisy billows of dry brown air, and it accelerated slowly, complacently, as if fully aware the mysteries of flight had been worked out long ago, and it lifted off calmly, and glinted in the sun, and sideslipped in the haze, and curved upward on trails of soot, setting a dark but graceful course north and east.

organize. I ran to the far end of the corridor.

Which because of the geometric complexities of high altitude flight meant we were likely aiming some ways south. A Great Circle route. Weird on a flat paper map, but just right for a spherical planet. We

It was said that a crow flying over Berlin would have to carry his own provisions.

The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

una volta che avrete imparato a volare, camminerete sulla terra guardando il cielo perché è là che siete stati ed è là che vorrete tornare...

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return

Perhaps her mind simply did not want to stop at one thought—just as a bird that soars with ease, which sees endless horizons, and to which all space, all the depth, all the joy of the soft and caressing azure are accessible.

up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky...

Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. He crossed out heavy, wrote weighted instead, then decided that was downright pretentious and put heavy back in.

She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight.

Luce su dolor como un abrigo de plumas demasiado pesadas para volar.

The sound of the engine changed from a hardworking drone to a hum. My stomach lurched to my chest. Now we would fall out of the sky. We hit a bump, and the plane lifted, as if soaring over a bubble. I waited for the corresponding drop. It didn't come.

I read somewhere that flying is like throwing your soul into the heavens and racing to catch it as it falls. I don't think mine would ever fall, he murmured, looking at the clear cold sky.

It's not the flying that's the hard part; it's the landing.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.