Flew Quotes
307 quotes by 280 authors
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in…
— Bill Bryson
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he…
— Bill Bryson
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She flew like a bird, only faster.
— Alvin M. Johnston
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Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is…
— John C. Wright
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Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while…
— Dizzy Gillespie
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh.…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids…
— Peter Facinelli
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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown…
— Henry Twells
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A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain...
— Winfield Townley Scott
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did…
— Primo Levi
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I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I…
— Robert Pattinson
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If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by…
— Lois Duncan
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He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound…
— John Dryden
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The wind flew. God told to wind to condense itself and out of the flurry came the horse. But with the spark of sprit the…
— Marguerite Henry
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My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the…
— Melanie Chisholm
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While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of…
— Gordon Cooper
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A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their…
— Gordon Cooper
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I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.
— Allen Stanford
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When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I…
— Danny Masterson
Who Wrote These Flew Quotes
280 authors contributed a total of 307 Flew Quotes, led by these top contributors: