Quotes About Flight

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.

Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Take flight each day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as it is intense. Every day a "spiritual exercise,"…Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions… Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition, just.

Adult ant-lions come in a variety of sizes and, for the most part, rather drab colouring. They look like extremely untidy and demented dragon-flies. They have wings that seem out of all proportion to their bodies and these they flap with a desperate air, as though it required the maximum amount of energy to prevent them from crashing to the earth.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

Riches certainly make themselves wings.

Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

Treba izdržati do kraja sa osmehom stjuardese koja zna da na avionu nešto nije u redu.

It was the kiss. For that brief moment, the volume of her world had been cranked up to Metallica levels, and she had loved the booming bass, and the spinning and twirling, and the sense that her heart had taken flight and not left her body, but taken her physical form along with it.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers.