Flight Quotes

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs.

I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The never-ending flight Of future days.

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show There's light above me by the shade I throw.