Flight Quotes - Page 38

• Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity--
  Early to bed and early to rise
  Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
  As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Boys, Men

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• Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare
  Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
  Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
  Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
  Prepare, prepare!

  William Blake

  Death, Heart, Eye

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.242, Routledge

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• The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Dad, Character

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

  Herman Melville

  Home, Doe, Safe

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.251, Penguin

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• The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
  And far beyond the discords of the wind.

  Wallace Stevens

  Swans, Wind, Soul

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.4, Vintage

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• Those who fled will fight another time.

  Tertullian

  Time, Fighting, Shrewdness

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

  William Carlos Williams

  Snow, Bird, Tree

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wings, Addiction, Choices

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• Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

  Dean Potter

  Moving, Ravens, Long

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• From the shaken tower
  A flock of bells take flight,
  And go with the hour.

  Alice Meynell

  Time, Towers, Bells

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• Love has no charm
  when Love is swept to earth:
  you'd make a lop-winged god,
  frozen and contrite,
  of god up-darting,
  winged for passionate flight.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Passionate, Frozen

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Crazy, Home

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• As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian faith from educational institutions, they begin to sense the dangers of complacency and of pietistical world flight.

  Edmund Clowney

  Christian, Religious, Educational

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• To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

  Karl Kraus

  Miracle, Stills, Humans

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• [Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

  Sarah Fielding

  Two, Genius, Language

  Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”

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• Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.

  Patricia Ireland

  Jobs, Here I Am, People

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• Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.

  Robert Mayer

  Differences, Light, Use

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• Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Daughter, Song

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• Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.

  Adelard of Bath

  Men, Degrees, Beast

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

  George Moses Horton

  Morning, Light, Soul

  George Moses Horton (1997). “The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry”, p.56, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

  Graham Hawkes

  Periods

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• Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!

  David Letterman

  Nike, Air, Sneakers

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• On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology.

  Dennis Miller

  Technology, Pilots, Thursday

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• A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

  Roger Zelazny

  Powerful, Reading, Imagination

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• A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Rose, Flying

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