Flying Quotes · Page 23

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

— Michael Jackson

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

— Wilfred Owen

Best move is probably the flying knee I used in the Ultimate Fighter semi-final v Ross Pointon in 2006.

— Michael Bisping

“The rich aren't paying for luxury - they're paying for basic humanity.”

— Lindy West, Shrill

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

— Beryl Markham

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

— Thomas Campion

Sometimes it's better to have a fall before you can fly !

— Ali Bassam

Those who leap for the sky may fall, its true. But they may also fly.

— Ramandeep Singh

“The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my…

— Jodi Picoult

Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything.

— Britney Spears

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No…

— Denzel Washington

I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to…

— Alan Tudyk

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men…

— Duane P. Schultz

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all,…

— Ridley Scott

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.…

— Jacques Charles

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind…

— Jacqueline Cochran

I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days…

— Christopher Lee

On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than…

— Richard Dawkins

For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their…

— Don Berliner

A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the…

— Jacques Charles

It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the…

— Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which…

— Margaret Mead

No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to…

— Mark Twain

I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving.

— Peter Jennings

“There will be a bird today. It will be white with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. It will…

— Tahereh Mafi

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

— Len Morgan

A knee injury is never something you want, especially at the time that I got it. I was flying at the time.

— Sean Longstaff

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

— Charles Lindbergh

I've been watching things like 'Master of the Flying Guillotine' since I was 5.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...

— Jerry Spinelli

I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.

— Greta Thunburg

“A well trained skydiving instructor can't save one from a broken parachute.”

— Bryan Way

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.

— Stephen Coonts

“Flying with Death was like being in a sleeping bag with a sensuous woman and a tarantula.”

— Michael Poore

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

— Winston Churchill

When your flying in a jet aircraft, everything goes much faster.

— Shannon Walker

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

— Helen Reddy

“When you jump off a cliff, falling can look a whole lot like flying, for a while anyway.”

— Elan Mastai

Don't do anything to stop a woman from flying; let fate take its course.

— Amado Nervo