Quotes About Flight

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

the scheduled launch, he had flown to Baikonur, bringing

The overall effect made Vos like a falcon poised in that exquisite instant between free fall and flight, and for a moment he couldn't breath.

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

Ningún cazador del cielo debe acabar su vida como presa. Vale más morir volando que atrapado en tierra.

Glaedr crouched low to the ground, and Oromis nimbly climbed up his leg and into the saddle on his back. "Come, Eragon and Saphira. We have much to talk about." The gold dragon leaped off the cliff and circled overhead, rising on an updraft.

It occurred to him that perhaps this was how shooting stars were made: a bird or a dragon or some other earthly creature snatched upward by the inexorable wind and thrown skyward with such speed, they flamed like siege arrows. If so, then he guessed he, Saphira, and Glaedr would make the brightest, most spectacular shooting star in living memory, if anyone was close enough to see their demise so far out to sea.

As she hurtled downward, Eragon said, If we had enough jewels, and if we stored enough energy in them, do you think we could fly all the way to the moon? Who knows what is possible? said Glaedr.

Away, away, you shall fly away, O'er the peaks and vales To the lands beyond. Away, away, you shall fly away, And never return to me. Gone! Gone you shall be from me, And I will never see you again. Gone! Gone you shall be from me, Though I wait for you evermore.

Eragon mounted Saphira

Mieux vaut mourir en plein vol que de périr écrasé au sol

The dove, as it flies in the sun, seems simply to sparkle like silver, but only one who has been able to wait at length to discover its hidden face will see its true gold or, rather, the color of a shining orange.

Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.

The plane was tiny; it had to be, because, as the pilot said, it must be able to come down on a half dollar. It flew as low as possible in order to escape detection by enemy radar. To be sure, that made a danger of church steeples and tall trees in the darkness; but then, as Frederick the Great had said to his troops, "Do you want to live forever?

While Wilbur watched, Orville Wright made the first powered flight, or rather a short hop of 36 meters lasting twelve seconds, above the sandy beach at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina on December 17, 1903. Then they switched places and completed three more short flights: the last, and the longest one, lasted fifty-nine seconds. Remarkably, almost four years went by before anybody else could fly a heavier-than-air machine for more than a minute.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Et ces deux âmes, sÅ"urs tragiques, s'envolèrent ensemble, l'ombre de l'une mêlée à la lumière de l'autre.

A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place.

That great little soul had taken flight.

All the birds that fly hold the thread of infinity in their claws. Germination