Quotes About Flight

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

I would look down from the Point to see a hawk riding the updrafts from the ridges below me and I would think: I am higher than he is. This is what it's like to fly.

As for flight, just a reminder that someone can sit inches away from another and still flee—they just do so internally. We call that stonewalling.

8:37 Instead of narrative build-up, what if we have Icarus crawling right into the water - wings on, indifferent to flight - skipping past the story-part to lie down in the ending?

Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Love flies, runs, and rejoices. It is free and nothing can hold it back.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.

You never forget the airplane you soloed.

Flying to Fair Isle from Lerwick is an experience I'll never forget.

My first flight was in my early 20s, from New York City to Los Angeles, to shoot a Cherry 7-UP commercial.

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash.

Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change.

Cadavez que el avión se ladeaba en exceso al despegar o al aterrizar, rezaba para que nos estrellásemos.

But just as was true in understanding flight, problems in our lives don't always map neatly to theories on a one-to-one basis.