Cannot Fly Quotes
35 quotes by 28 authors
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies…
— Andre Sainte-Lague
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We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied…
— Alan Cohen
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where…
— Hilary McKay
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Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only…
— Lupita Nyong'o
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Break the Shellâ€: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from…
— India.Arie
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Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They…
— Atul Gawande
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The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
— William Empson
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According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing…
— Igor Sikorsky
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything,…
— John of the Cross
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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains…
— Charles Ives
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Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.
— T.D. Jakes
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Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but…
— Rajneesh
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Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
— Langston Hughes
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
— Stephen Sondheim
Who Wrote These Cannot Fly Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 35 Cannot Fly Quotes, led by these top contributors: