Flight Quotes

927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors

The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination. — Alexandre Dumas
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,… — Orson Scott Card
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau
This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and… — Eddie Izzard
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. — Oscar Wilde
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page… — John Steinbeck
i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat,… — Charles Bukowski
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and… — Soren Kierkegaard
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… — Paul Verlaine
If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the… — Martin Luther
Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show. — Suzanne Collins
The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the… — Robert Jordan
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one… — Muriel Barbery
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let… — Lawrence Durrell
Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would… — Milan Kundera
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born… — Victor Hugo
I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth… — Douglas Coupland
Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you. — Natsuki Takaya
Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a… — Patricia Briggs
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my… — Edgar Allan Poe
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again — Richard Bach
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the… — James A. Baldwin

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