Quotes About Flight

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.

As they moved to push off the boat, a loud squawk sounded near at hand. The people pulled up short in time see the outline of a seagull fly past, the bird chattering wildly. Before anyone could speak, another bird took flight from the palapa. This bird, far larger than the first, passed overhead as a dark apparition. The big bird made no sound, save the gentle whoosh from its massive wings.

Afraid you won't be able to keep up," needled Volant, interrupting. "I thought you were The Fastest Flier in the Sky?!" "Really," said Gabby. "That's how you're going to play this?" "Yep, slowpoke, that's how I'm going to play it." And without another word, Volant the eagle launched into the air, pointed south, with not so much as a glance back.

RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.

Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

It is my time. The time of maximum ride.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared over it.

she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

the most ancient parts of the brain make no distinction between the external threat of the tiger and internal "threats" such as worries about the future or memories from the past.

He loved more than anything to fly. His sole conflict was with gravity.

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I. There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly."

Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach.

Mamita! -exclamé-. ¡Yo no puedo ir en avión! -Si estás sentada en él cuando despega, no podrás evitarlo.

Before taxiing out to the runway, we paused again for five more checks: whether anti-icing was necessary and completed, the autobrakes were set, the flight controls were checked, the ground equipment was cleared, and no warning lights were on. The three checklists