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Quotes About Flight

Flying is the second best thrill to cheerleaders; being caught is the first.
~ Anonymous
Cheerleaders are angels - we're the only humans who can fly.
~ Anonymous
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
~ Anonymous
Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
~ Anonymous
If the good Lord had wanted people to stay on the ground, he would have given us roots.
~ Anonymous
Flee as a bird to your mountain.
~ Anonymous
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
~ Anonymous
Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter.
~ Anonymous
Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
~ Anonymous
Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.
~ Anonymous
One flew east, one flew west,One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
We are mice, he thinks, and the sky swirls with hawks.
~ Anthony Doerr
Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.
~ Anthony Doerr
Doesn't look like much, does he?" murmurs Frederick. "Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire." The wagtail hops from twig to twig. Werner rubs his aching eyes. It's just a bird. "Ten thousand years ago," whispers Frederick, "they came through here in the millions. When this place was a garden, one endless garden from end to end.
~ Anthony Doerr
But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.
~ Anthony Doerr
Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.
~ Anthony Doerr
The) Gray wagtail...doesn't look like much, does he? Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.
~ Anthony Doerr
Doesn't look like much, does he?" murmurs Fredrick. "Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.
~ Anthony Doerr
Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
~ Anthony Edwards
Higgledy-piggledy, Franklin D. Roosevelt High over Jutland flew In from the East. 'Well,' quipped a Minister Plenipotentiary, 'Something is Groton in Denmark, at least.
~ Anthony Hecht
The British Airways Airbus
~ Anthony Horowitz
Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
~ Peter Straub
In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art. Here in the United States, those of us who pursue human flight are treated as criminals and are forced to travel abroad to seek one of man's most fundamental desires, to fly free.
~ Dean Potter
Before I got to the NBA, I always flew coach - it was the worst time of my life. I remember being 14 or 15, and it was such a struggle to fit into those seats.
~ Kristaps Porzingis