Quotes About Flight

Life lobs us into the air like a stone, and we fly along, saying as we go: "You see, I'm moving.

Sve, pa i ona sama, bilo joj je nesnosno. Želela je da odleti kao ptica, da ode nekuda da se podmladi, daleko, daleko, u prostore bez ijedne pegice.

When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.

Every day is a good day when you're floating. Your whole life you spend walking around Earth and then all of a sudden you get to fly like you've dreamed of.

Part of me says it's kind of crazy to think you can fly your human body. Another part of me thinks all of us have had the dream that we can fly. Why not chase after it?

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

I am terrified of plane landing. It's a phobia for me.

Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

The U.S's first ballistic missile test was a complete disaster. The Atlas Missile Program, which began in the early 1950s, attempted its first ballistic missile launch on June 11, 1957. The rocket flew for 24 seconds before blowing up. It took two more years before the first successfully armed test flight took place.

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.

When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

On the technical side, Apollo 8 was mainly a test flight for the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft. The main spacecraft system that needed testing on a real lunar flight was the onboard navigation system.

Such men wrote the Constitution. They did so in a mood marked by disenchantment. For the delegates shared the widespread suspicion that virtue might be in flight from a deteriorating America

the augurs' task was to consult the gods by observing the sky, birds, their flight and their cries, but also lightning and thunder.

Wings," she murmured, "oh, yes—to fly away with when he's tired of his play. Of course it was a man who conceived the idea of wings, otherwise Cupid would have been insupportable.

What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you to see that ship.

Dragons. A sky full of dragons.

I flew, I hunted, I killed. I am SINTARA!

All that is of dragons belongs only to dragons.

The only way out is to Run. But you have to do it now. Stay where you are, and you're dead!