Flight Quotes · Page 22

“If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

— Isaac Asimov

Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

— Takuboku Ishikawa

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can…

— William Langewiesche

Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.

— Fernando Alonso

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

— Amelia Earhart

My worst flight was with the Indonesian carrier Garuda from Australia to Bali, which was just awful.

— John Torode

Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about…

— Paul Greengrass

The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act…

— Donald Trump

On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook…

— Margaret Heffernan

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight…

— Robert Herrick

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different…

— Gordon Cooper

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

— Charles Buxton

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.

— Thomas Love Peacock

I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of…

— Elon Musk

Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person…

— Chelsea Handler

And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back…

— Paolo Gentiloni

We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress…

— Barack Obama

In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations.…

— David Limbaugh

Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven…

— Percy Knauth

“Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow, Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts…

— Sara Teasdale

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early…

— Noam Chomsky

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

— Sergey Biryuzov

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

— Plato

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

— Simon Newcomb

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

— Doug Larson

I m gonna catch this flight and when I reach my destination. I hope youll be smiling. Longing to see me.

— Freddie Mcgregor

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

— Arnold Palmer

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

— Gus Grissom

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

— Ally Condie

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

— Anonymous

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come…

— Howard Hughes

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

— Tennessee Williams

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

— C. Walton Lillehei

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

If the flight is private, we probably should board it. You see it you like it, I can probably afford it.

— Wiz Khalifa