"High sprits they had: gravity they flouted." — Cecil Day-Lewis
"High sprits they had: gravity they flouted."
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Cecil Day-Lewis
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11 Quotes by Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis has 11 quotes on this site.
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Love is proved in the letting go.
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Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
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There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that…
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Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life…
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A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which…
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Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age…
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To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced…
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They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak…
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More Aviation Quotes
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one of 307 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
— Neil Armstrong
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's…
— Douglas Adams
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
— Mel Brooks
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece…
— Kalpana Chawla
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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My first wife didn't like to fly, either.
— Gordon Baxter
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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a…
— Benny Hill
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
— Jonathan Swift
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
— Will Durant
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