Flight Quotes

927 quotes by 688 authors

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! — William Shakespeare
And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight. — William Butler Yeats
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the… — John Burroughs
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of… — Arthur C. Clarke
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all… — Victor Hugo
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty… — Terry Kay
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon… — Ron Franscell
From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today. — Unknown Author
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future. — Alessandro Baricco
I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight. — Rabindranath Tagore
A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it.… — Unknown Author
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil… — Gerald Holton
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected. — Hugh Latimer Dryden
The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant… — Murray Kempton
Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing… — Sun Tzu
I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became… — Eileen Caddy
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a… — Alan Feduccia
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. — Hermann Broch
We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality,… — Hans Rookmaaker

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