Quotes About Flight

Flying gives me a tremendous sense of freedom and I hope that anyone who wishes to learn has the opportunity to do so.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing - it can't fly.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.

Y aquellas alas de mariposa azul de qué nos sirven? preguntarán los que nacieron sin alas. ¿De qué nos sirve eso que flota en el vago azul de los sueños? Contesta el poeta: -Pour des certains êtres sublimes, planer c'est servir.

when we perceive danger, adrenaline shoots into us but because we can't kill a traffic warden or eat an estate agent, the juice never comes back down. We're in a constant state of red light alert, like a car siren that drives you nuts. Because

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.

i am the wind. one day, i will fly free

peacocks flew.

get to fly while you're still a little

Ama ruhumuz böyle gökyüzlerinde uçup dururken birdenbire yere inip insan küçüklü?ü ile kar??la?mak ne tuhaf oluyor.

Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice.

You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could rise above it, to a serene, nonphysical realm. But it's only through ecstasy you can do that, and ecstasy is achieved through the body itself. Without the bone and sinew of wings, no flight. Without that ecstasy you can only be dragged further down by the body, into its machinery. Its rusting, creaking, vengeful, brute machinery.

We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

Now she imagines him dreaming. She imagines him dreaming of her, as she is dreaming of him. Through a sky the color of wet slate they fly towards each other on dark invisible wings.

It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird. I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world, so stupid it can't even fly any more. I am eating lost flight.

A bird of the air will carry the voice.

But they only run away. Run isn't quite accurate. Their legs don't move. Their still-twitching feet don't touch the ground.

I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world. So stupid it can't even fly anymore. I am eating lost flight.