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Quotes About Flight

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.
~ Eric Bana
Moments fly and if you don't fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
droppedand fallingfrom suchheightsfor solongthatmaybeI will haveenough timeto learnflying
~ Vera Pavlova
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
~ Thomas Pynchon
A poem should always have birds in it.
~ Mary Oliver
More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.
~ Mary Oliver
Starlings in Winter I feel my boots trying to leave the ground, I feel my heart pumping hard. I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.
~ Mary Oliver
For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.
~ Mary Oliver
You broke the cage and flew.
~ Mary Oliver
I felt like a little donkey when his burden is finally lifted. Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing--the reason they can fly.
~ Mary Oliver
The Ice Wizard had a younger sister who loved him more than anything in the world. One day they fought over something foolish. He lost his temper and told her to leave him alone forever. She ran down to the sea in tears. There she found a flock of swan maidens. They gave her a white feathered dress. She put on the dress and became a swan maiden herself. She flew
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I ask Dennis how, knowing what he knows and seeing what he sees, he ever manages to board a plane. He points out that most crashing airplanes don't hit the ground from thirty thousand feet. The vast majority crash on takeoff or landing, either on or near the ground. Shanahan says 80 to 85 percent of plane crashes are potentially survivable.
~ Mary Roach
I ran like a thing that runs.
~ Maureen Johnson
En cambio ahora su apresuramiento tiene otro motivo: el miedo. No los empuja ningún propósito, sino tan sólo el miedo. No van a ningún sitio; escapan.
~ Ayn Rand
O, fly and never tire, Fly and never tire, Fly and never tire, There's a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. —FROM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUAL
~ Barack Obama
called from Hawaii to say he was on his way home, waiting for a military flight. On Christmas
~ Barbara Bush
I felt the hairs on the back of my neck pop up, a fresh surge of adrenaline dump into my veins. My fight or flight reaction is finely honed, and this guy's presence was making it sing.
~ Barry Eisler
Many robins got in the church from the trees and roosted among the congregation. They were drunk from some berries and fallen persimmons. Come into the mead hall out of the chill. In Viking history, once a Christian described human life as the flight of a bird through the mead hall. The outerness afterward, eternity.
~ Barry Hannah
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.
~ Stephen King
Algunos pájaros no están destinados a que los enjaulen, eso es todo. Tienen las plumas demasiado brillantes, su canto es demasiado dulce y libre. Así que, o les dejas irse, o, cuando abres la jaula para darles de comer, se las arreglan para escapar volando. Y la parte de ti que en el fondo creía que era un error tenerlos cautivos se alboroza, pese al hecho de que el lugar en que vives sea mucho más lóbrego y triste tras su partida.
~ Stephen King
Love and beauty could not be preserved by panic or flight.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
And if I'm flying solo At least I'm flying free
~ Stephen Schwartz
Well, we can't all come and go by bubble!
~ Stephen Schwartz
Gagarin had just flown around the world. Now he needed a horse and cart. To those familiar with only slightly later TV footage of NASA spacecraft returning to earth [...] Gagarin's return is in a league of its own, an exercise of the surreal with a uniquely Russian twist.
~ Stephen Walker