Flight Quotes
927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
— Colum McCann
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It is hot in Tokyo, it’s humid, I’m tired, all of these backs are in front of you, I’m not going to make the team…
— Terrell Davis
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If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr.…
— Unknown Author
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My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for…
— Elizabeth Streb
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Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch…
— Charles Gounod
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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the…
— Athenaeus
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You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs...
— Dale Hansen
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Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until…
— Frank Herbert
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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas…
— Edward E. Barnard
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Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone…
— Khalil Gibran
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Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for…
— Dan Millman
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been…
— Charles Lindbergh
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How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep…
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
— Unknown Author
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Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to…
— Charles Dickens
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There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
— Erica Jong
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[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Flight Quotes
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