Quotes About Flight

Nuvens deslizam, depetaladas, e altas, altas, garças brancas planam.

the large black birds swirling and dispersing over

that the smallest, truest reason he will never fly again is that the last airplane seat he ever sits in has to be the one beside his brother.

Popular Mechanics article entitled "What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447

They soar, they are somewhere mid-flight, The words of love and liberation And I'm succumbing to stage-fright, My lips – ice cold in trepidation. But soon, where birches, thin and humble, Caress the windows with their leaves, - The voice of the unseen will rumble And roses will be tied in wreaths.

But now my soul, unused to stretch her powers In flight so daring, drops her weary wing, And seeks again the known accustomed spot, Drest up with sun, and shade, and lawns, and streams, A mansion fair, and spacious for its guest, And full replete with wonders.

started here. Helen walked back to her hotel slowly, enjoying the cool of the night and the beauty of Paris. The streets were busy, and even in the side street where she crossed to her hotel there were people in the pavement cafés. She toyed with the idea of having one for the road, but decided to call it a night. She had a flight to Grand

How I wish to fly with the geese away from dreary November days, the "freeze-up," and cruel winter. Away from loneliness, isolation, and anxiety bred by blizzards. Most every local person I've talked to grudgingly admits to an autumn apprehension. It is part and parcel of an Adirondacker's psychological makeup. The geese contaminate us with this strange depression on their southbound flight and cure us with their northbound. In between, we try to tolerate winter, each in his or her own way.

A pink fluttering bird flew across her mind.

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

Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings

The average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was no more than fifty to sixty flight hours.

I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

I flew to Los Angeles to interview Vinnie Jones and Piers Morgan for the BBC and spent 11 hours in economy on BA, and the leg room was fine. In business class, Virgin, BA, and Emirates are good. I've flown business class on Kingfisher, which has proper couches.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.

Something bright and alien flashed across the sky... and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies and thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our restless blood could find frontiers in the illimitable air. But by that time we were all pretty well committed; and the Jazz Age continued; we would all have one more.

Durante il fragoroso decollo Dick si sentì intorpidito, rendendosi conto di quanto fosse stanco. Un'enorme persuasiva tranquillità s'impossessò di lui, e lasciò la malattia ai malati, il rumore ai motori, la direzione ai piloti.

It's like lifting off in an airplane: you're on the ground, on the ground, on the ground... and then you're up, riding on a magical cushion of air and prince of all you survey. That makes me happy, because it's what I was made to do.

As a tribute, they had this inscribed in bronze and placed on her tombstone: She has climbed to the peaks above storm and cloud She has found the light of son and of God, I cannot say, I will not say That she is dead. She is merely flown away. —James Whitcomb Riley

The marsh toads interviewed the eagle 'How come you venture so high? Aren't you scared you'll hit the ceiling That blue metal dome they call the sky?' The eagle knew these earth-bound creatures Were ignorant of boundless space And couldn't conceive of infinities Not being born to the wind's embrace." From Bachchoo's Fables

koe nakaba / sagi koso yuki no / hitotsurane4 If only noiseless they would go, The herons flying by Were but a line of snow Across the sky CHP

If only noiseless they would go, The herons flying by Were but a line of snow Across the sky