Flight Quotes · Page 16

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Their flight was not less exhilarating for being explainable.”

— Poul Anderson

When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.

— Stella Young

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

— Rajneesh

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

— Alexander Pope

They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.

— Angelina Jolie

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

— William Butler Yeats

“Miss the flight. Miss the boat. Miss the class. Miss the party. But, never ever miss your dream.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write…

— Kristen Schaal

Never, ever get on an American Airlines flight. They will make you wait four hours, and then, when you complain about it,…

— Cenk Uygur

Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in…

— Richard Bach

The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems…

— Murray Kempton

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the…

— William Cowper

I missed a connecting flight once and the girlfriend I was with started to cry. And I was like 'Look, just chill.…

— Chloe Madeley

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do…

— August Krogh

“What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right…

— George R.R. Martin

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had…

— Charles Dickens

Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I…

— Jon Spaihts

I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives…

— Frosty Wooldridge

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number…

— J. C. Watts

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the…

— William Butler Yeats

Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although…

— Anonymous

The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the…

— Dave Barry

“Come, fly with me!" cried the goddess, as she sped ahead of them, her extremities flaming with a comet tail of sparks…

— Vera Nazarian

These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass…

— Charles Lindbergh

As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or…

— Chris Bohjalian

“Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on a plane. When we…

— Tony Kushner

“Think about taking a trip on an airplane. Before taking off, the pilot has a very clear destination in mind, which hopefully…

— Stephen R. Covey

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was…

— Tobias Dantzig

“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles.…

— Don DeLillo

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth.…

— Pablo Neruda

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

— Colum McCann

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

— Nevil Shute

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

— Octave Chanute

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

— Charles Dickens

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight.

— Ellen Ochoa

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

— Camille Paglia

Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

— Mickey Rupp