Flight Quote by John Dryden Download Open image “Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flight Flood Forsake Fowl Hasty Land Wings Winter
“And for the partridge there was the sun suddenly shut out, the foul flailing blackness spreading wings above, the roar ceasing, the blazing knives… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“There were snow geese there—hundreds of them, white and crisp against the dark and shining water, and more coming in, sounding like trumpets as… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“...a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“And for the partridge there was the sun suddenly shut out, the foul flailing blackness spreading wings above, the roar ceasing, the blazing knives… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Now I think of the starling flocks that move across the stripped winter landscape at home; how you'll hear and look up to this… — Kerry Hardie Copy Share Image
“THE ELIZABETHANS ATE all sorts of fowl, including quail, crane, heron, buzzards, and pigeons. Partridge, like many of the other birds, was thought to… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
“When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to… — Inazo Nitobe Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
“On March 31, 1994, I went to LAX to catch a flight from L.A. to Seattle. Kurt Cobain was waiting to take the same… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument. — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image