Flight Quotes · Page 18

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

— Erma Bombeck

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

— Sunita Williams

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

— Rory McIlroy

“Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly.”

— J.R. Rim

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

— Cesar Pelli

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

— Caitlin Moran

By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

— Horace

I don't play a lot of games. I play flight simulators, mostly.

— James May

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the…

— Sidney Lanier

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why…

— Sam Ewing

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious…

— William Blake

Airplane noise continues to impact communities around JFK, specifically those under the typical flight path for an airplane approaching runway 22L/R.

— Tom Suozzi

While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I'm sure there are managers who have had far greater financial success. But my companies such as easyJet have changed the lives…

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is…

— Alan Shepard

I've always wanted to travel. My mom was a geography queen, I knew the atlas, and I looked at her pictures of…

— Le1f

Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights…

— Yuri Gagarin

Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New York. I paused.…

— Tod Wodicka

The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our…

— Evagrius Ponticus

When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas…

— Arthur Koestler

When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead.…

— Ray Dalio

While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed…

— Gordon Cooper

When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?

— Pablo Neruda

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!

— Stephen Coonts

“This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.”

— Lorrie Moore

Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in…

— William T. Piper

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

— Charles Lindbergh

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing…

— Richard Branson

I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software.

— Thomas Middleditch

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my…

— Martha Whitmore Hickman

There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.

— Tempestt Bledsoe

Any flight I ever take, I wear the same outfit. It's a big gray sweater with 'C'est La Vie' written on it.

— Shira Haas

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.

— William Carlos Williams

“mid-descent testing out some unassisted flight epiphany that came to him as he slept.”

— Allan J. Ashinoff

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

— Josephine Hart

“In hindsight, I wouldn't have missed this flight for the world, honestly.”

— Charming Man

I just watched the entire season of 'Louie' in one flight. What an amazing show.

— Jason O'Mara