Quotes About Flight

To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down...

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind.

I am like a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Strange that when we finally fly, the separation from the past seems easier to achieve. Height and distance from the earth seem to stabilize the spirit, to liberate it from its sorrow. We enter the consciousness of the cosmos.

Us way down to the body. There the bird

A man's flight is in itself sufficient reason for the presumption of his guilt.

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

ALTIVOLANT  (ALTI'VOLANT)   adj.[altivolans, Lat. from altus and volo.] High flying.Dict.  

their heart grew cold they let their wings down

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one. It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

How fast were you? Wes asked me. I said, Not that fast. You mean you couldn't... fly? he said, smiling at me.

Hope, that blind songbird. It flies through the bleakest skies.

Do you love him? Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

Oh dear, oh dear, that our frames should lack Wings with which to match our soaring spirit,

High as winged imagination's flight is, Nothing it is able to conceive suffices. But minds uncommon, deep, preserved from arrogance, Have in the infinite infinite confidence.

Alas! it is so hard to find corporeal wings that match those of the human mind. Yet in all of us there is an innate urge to rise aloft and soar along when, lost in the blue space above us, the lark pours forth its vibrant song, when high above fir-covered crags the eagle floats on outspread wing, and when above the plains and lakes the crane seeks out its native place.

A joyful life isn't about others; it's about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

Let's fly away and live forever