Flew Quote by Jeremy Robert Johnson

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

— Jack Gilbert

“Icarus! It’s not as if I have forgotten all names. I remember Icarus. He flew too close to the sun. In the stories, though,…

— Neil Gaiman

“There once was a hero who flew too close to the sun. His wings of wax fell apart and he plummeted to the earth.”

— Hiromu Arakawa

“Get closer," I told Blackjack. "I need to talk to the statue." Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, he muttered, but he flew…

— Rick Riordan

“Failing and Flying" Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people…

— Jack Gilbert

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition…

— John C. Wright

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of…

— Dwight Longenecker

“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I…

— Madeline Miller

“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”

— Amie Kaufman

“Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.”

— Nina Mouawad

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design…

— Alison Bechdel