Fly Quotes

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Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people… — Annie Dillard
Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel… — William Shakespeare
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight. — William Carlos Williams
To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place… — Italo Calvino
This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can… — Rainer Maria Rilke
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a… — Henry David Thoreau
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming… — Virginia Woolf
Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the… — James M. Barrie
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them… — Stephen King
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he… — Toni Morrison
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line.… — Neil Peart
The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends. — Janet Fitch
There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore… — Haruki Murakami
Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you… — Charlotte Bronte
Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you… — Bob Dylan
I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be? — James M. Barrie

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