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Quotes About Flight

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.
~ Yves Rossy
If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"
~ William Langewiesche
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
~ Omar Khayyam
Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.
~ Kris Wu
To use the skills nature had given you was necessary, as a horse must run, or a bird must fly. It
~ Anne Perry
The air was rushing past me. I was clinging to him, though I don't think I needed to, and we were out in the night, and we were moving towards the clouds.
~ Anne Rice
She felt a lot less grateful to Derek now than she had when they were on the plane.
~ Anne Tyler
What would you do if you could fly? Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me. Is that on the quiz? I ask, grinning as I type. I think we've studied just about everything else. Mrs. V chuckles. I'd be scared to let go, I type. Afraid you'd fall? she asks. No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Any problems with your flight? (Acheron) I didn't eat my pilot if that's what you mean. And little Nicky here is still breathing and not bleeding. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well, I would turn into a dragon and fly you home, but something tells me you would protest. (Sebastian) No doubt. I imagine the scales would also chafe my skin. (Channon) True. Not to mention, I once learned the hard way that they really do call the military out on you. You know, fighter jets are hard to dodge when you have a forty-foot wingspan. (Sebastian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You be really careful." – Sundown "Always. You have to be careful when you fly, or you end up smeared on the side of a building." – Ren
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
~ Edward Young
Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.
~ Michael Chabon
I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.
~ Paul Young
You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees
~ Sue Monk Kidd
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
~ Kelly Corrigan
The girl I've been looking for my entire life. Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.
~ L.A. Weatherly
When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.
~ John Edgar Wideman
İğrenç hayvand?r mart?," dedim. "Ne bulsa yer, leÅŸ yiyicidir.
~ John Fante
Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.
~ John Flanagan
I suppose next you'll be putting wings on her so she can fly?" Hal laughed. "I've been thinking about that. Not sure if I can get it to work . . . yet.
~ John Flanagan
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
~ John Gillespie Magee