Flying Quotes

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!

Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

I will go down with my colours flying.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!

I've always been shocked that people that I'm actually flying with say, 'Oh, I feel safer on the plane with you.' I'm thinking, 'You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.'

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer

What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.