Flying Quotes
1248 Flying quotes by 927 unique authors
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Prose is walking; poetry is flying
— Galway Kinnell
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You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or…
— Richard Bach
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Spring: trees flying up to their birds
— Paul Celan
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Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
— Victor Hugo
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Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.
— Rick Riordan
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If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
— Frank McCourt
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I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose…
— Anne Rice
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I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
— Charles Lindbergh
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He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying.…
— Stephen Chbosky
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No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts…
— W G Sebald
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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
— William Shakespeare
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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
— James M. Barrie
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If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even…
— Hermann Hesse
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city,…
— Milan Kundera
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Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.
— Mae West
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
— Douglas Coupland
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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
— Coco Chanel
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds?…
— Unknown Author
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I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who Wrote These Flying Quotes
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