Flight Quotes

927 quotes by 688 authors

I admit that I sometimes climbed on other fellows' backs. But I used to watch the flight of the ball perhaps more than the other… — Unknown Author
I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And… — Nancy Bird Walton
In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take. — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight. — Robert Graves
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. — Edward Abbey
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage… — Elwyn Brooks White
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. — Georges Bernanos
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a… — Dorothea Lange
The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being,… — Gaston Bachelard
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight. — Miguel de Cervantes
In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the… — Charles Dickens
Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not… — Romain Rolland
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace;… — Seneca the Younger
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. .… — Isak Dinesen
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. — Thomas Pynchon
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into… — Beryl Markham
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be… — Gordon Cooper
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for… — Louise Thaden
Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very… — Unknown Author

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