Flight Quotes

• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Faith, Confidence, Health

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• In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Flying, Able

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  Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

  Neil Armstrong

  Joy, Flying, Special

  "In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility". Book by Francis French and Colin Burgess, September 2007.

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• Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Imagination, Indulge

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.673, Wildside Press LLC

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• For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Doe, Happy Man

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• The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivation, Flying High, Aviation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  James Joyce

  Men, Trying, Language

  'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1916) ch. 5

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• When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

  Chetan Bhagat

  Inspirational, People, Flying

  Twitter post from Jul 8, 2013

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  The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Clouds, Flying High

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4707, Delphi Classics

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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Sad, Air

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.451, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

  Bill Gates

  Travel, Brother, Writing

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• The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Swings, Judging

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• One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Book, Men, Fancy

  "First Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality: Fundamental Problems and Readings in Philosophy". Book by Andrew Bailey (p. 300), August 6, 2004.

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• 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.

  John S. Pistole

  People, Want, Privacy

  Senate hearing on TSA, full-body scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

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• The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

  Daniel Goleman

  Fighting, Emotional, Triggers

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• I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

  Todd Barry

  Atlanta, Doors, Kingdoms

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• I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Business, Real, Harsh

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• 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.

  Bob Taft

  Hero, America, Never Forget

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Mean, Giving, Enemy

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

  Sally Ride

  Couple, Years, Astronaut

  Scholastic's Web site Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• 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.

  Sally Ride

  Years, Together, Crew

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• 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

  Wally Schirra

  Believe, Pilots, Tests

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• The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

  Jim Ramstad

  War, Hero, Firefighter

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