Flying Quotes · Page 8

Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

— Tom Robbins

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

— Wallace Stevens

I will go down with my colours flying.

— Virginia Woolf

“Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.”

— Margaret Young

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

— Alexander Pope

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

— Stanley Baldwin

Not every flying hero has a cape.

— Michael Jordan

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.

— Sophocles

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

— Richard Bach

“We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter up there.”

— Dan Brown

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

— Abby Sunderland

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

— Harriet Quimby

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

— Wilfred Owen

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

— Jonathan Swift

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

— Alexander Graham Bell

Now, let's see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!

— Davy Jones

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a…

— Bill Engvall

Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies…

— Bill Maher

“It is far easier to launch oneself from a high place in the hope of sprouting wings, than it is to write…

— Harrison Davies

I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I don't know why, that's…

— Mitch Hedberg

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

— Janice Mirikitani

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world…

— Danica Patrick

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us.…

— William Anders

“Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girls…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing…

— Rajneesh

I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so…

— Manfred von Richthofen

I'm not falling anymore. That's what L says, and she's right. I guess you could say I'm flying. We both are. And…

— Kami Garcia

As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon…

— Johannes Kepler

I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic…

— Sydney Pollack

I only do children's films now! I think when you go to LA some people feel you've defected a little bit and…

— Ashley Jensen

I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate park with one…

— Tony Hawk

Those who don't jump will never fly.

— Leena Ahmad

In order to fly, you have to be free.

— Li Cunxin

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

— Anonymous

Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly

— Alicia Keys

I hate flying. I don't planes. I get really anxious.

— Lucy Hale

Don't let the fear of falling keep you from flying

— Mariana Connelly

I love flying. That's my job. That's what I love.

— Wally Funk

“Every flight begins with a fall," the crow said.”

— George R.R. Martin