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Quotes About Flight

Eventually, Martin persuaded Clay to fly. "But then he went to an army supply store and bought a parachute and actually wore it on the plane
~ Jonathan Eig
Animals that fly seem to violate the laws of physics, but only until you learn a bit more about physics.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?
~ Jonathan Safran
She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky.
~ Jonathan Tropper
El tiempo vuela como una flecha, decía la niña, y la mosca de la fruta también vuela.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
I feel like a bird!
~ Erin Hunter
What were you trying to do? Did you think you were a bird? Did you think you could fly?
~ Erin Hunter
feel like a bird!" he cried. The words were hardly out of his mouth before he felt his paws slipping. For a heart-stopping moment he thought the wind would bowl him over to plummet down to the rocks below. The landscape whirled sickeningly around him. Then teeth fastened in his scruff and yanked him back to safety. He looked up to see Crowfeather. "Thanks," he gasped. "Just remember you're not a bird," the WindClan cat growled.
~ Erin Hunter
Moth Flight!
~ Erin Hunter
Swallowtail's
~ Erin Hunter
A guy should never underestimate the power of a well-placed jet
~ Bella Andre
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
~ Tom Clancy
I'm constantly running away from everything. I'm running away from things on a daily basis. I run away from relationships. I run away from responsibilities.
~ Norman Reedus
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.
~ Laurel Clark
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
~ Fiona Apple
I wanted to be an air hostess because I wanted to see the world.
~ Tabu
Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.
~ David Neeleman
We put in hundreds of hours at SpaceX, studied over 90 different kinds of training guides and manuals and lessons to learn how to fly the fly the Dragon and what to do in emergency situations.
~ Jared Isaacman
A single bird flew by at eye level, then shot straight up to the treetops. A grasshopper landed suddenly on my wrist. Creepy magic.
~ Gillian Flynn
Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
~ Giordano Bruno
With a terrified yelp, the guard turned tail and ran the other way.
~ Gordon Korman
when aeroplanes—strange crates of wood
~ Graham Greene