Flight Quotes

Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.

The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.