Quotes About Flight

Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

On October 21, Albo, the pilot, recorded the great event in his log:

The sensation of flight was novel and delightful, and the fact of accomplishing what several eminent scientists have 'proved' impossible gave an added satisfaction.

He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.

The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

fleeing the long arm of the Marquis of Strickland's power.

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

It flashed upon Miss Pross's mind that the doors were all standing open, and would suggest the flight. Her first act was to shut them. There were four in the room, and she shut them all. She then placed herself before the door of the chamber which Lucie had occupied.

The BFG changed into his famous top gear and all at once he began to fly forward as though there were springs in his legs and rockets in his toes. He went skimming over the earth like some magical hop-skip-and-jumper with his feet hardly ever touching the ground.

If the good Lord had wanted people to stay on the ground, he would have given us roots.

In a world where we are all slaves to the laws of gravity, skydivers are proud to be freedom fighters!

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

Their tumultuous love story was adapted into the 1974 Broadway musical Mack & Mabel. * Peeping Pete was released on June 23, 1913, with A Bandit; they are the oldest surviving Arbuckle movies. * Custard tended to break up in flight, and it faded into the background when shot in monochrome, so later pies consisted of blackberries and whipped cream—a concoction local bakeries readily learned to devise.

The need to do what's right, and maybe find a little adventure along the way." Poe shifted in his seat. "You remind me of my brother," Leia said softly. "Fly like him, too, apparently." Poe looked at her, surprised and flattered at once.

The pilot of any plane will agree that when an aircraft is flying with the currents of the atmosphere, the time to get from one place to another can be much shorter. However, when the plane is flying against the flow, it endures a rough ride, and wind resistance can add hours to the flight.

Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.

Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . .

Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ." — Guillaume Apollinairet French poet

L'Homme il est humain à peu près autant que la poule vole.

El vuelo de un pájaro es efímero. Solo va de una rama a otra, pero desde esa otra rama, descubre un mundo nuevo».

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.