Balloons Quotes

• Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.

  William Cranch Bond

  Life Is Like, Life Is, Results

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• Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Cute Love, Happiness

  A. A. Milne (2002). “Pooh's House”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

  Richard Branson

  Inspiring, Finding The One, World

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• There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

  Terry Pratchett

  Letting Go, Children, People

  "Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.

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• We buy balloons, we let them go.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.214, Pan Macmillan

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• Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Imagination, Earth, Philanthropy

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.319

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Heart

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

  Herman Melville

  Eating, Immortality, Filled

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.201

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• The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Children, Light, Water

  Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.73, World Wisdom, Inc

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• The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Past, Air, Earth

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• The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons.

  Demetri Martin

  Party, Thinking, People

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2011

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• It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Adventure, Wind

  "Richard Branson's Tech Essentials" by Alexandra Wolfe, www.wsj.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Whatever makes your balloon red, Swopes.

  Darynda Jones

  Red

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.115, Macmillan

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• Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

  Richard Bach

  Soulmate, Two, Together

  "The Bridge Across Forever : A Lovestory". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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• Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

  Bernie Siegel

  Positive, Land, Receiving

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• Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

  David McCullough

  Morality, Cradle, Graves

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Term

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Moving, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

  Gene Fowler

  Success, Children, Toys

  "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.

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• We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.

  Rhys Bowen

  Air, Clouds, Hot

  Rhys Bowen (2009). “In a Gilded Cage”, p.11, Macmillan

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• There's something in a flying horse,
  There's something in a huge balloon.

  William Wordsworth

  Horse, Flying, Huge

  'Peter Bell' (1819) prologue, l. 1

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• Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

  Richard Branson

  Art, Calling, Half

  Sir Richard Branson (2010). “Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space”, p.46, Random House

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• My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.

  Ian Kelsey

  Romance, Littles

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• Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

  Gelett Burgess

  Wind, Sky, Imagination

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• Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

  e. e. cummings

  Moon, Sky, Cities

  1925 'Seven Poems, VII'. David Niven used the phrase for his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon (1975).

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