Kites Quotes

• Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Success, Uplifting

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• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Funny, Humor, Wind

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  Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Educational, Inspiration

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• Come up and be a kite,
  On a diamond flight!

  Kate Bush

  Flight, Come Up, Diamond

  Song: Kite, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978

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• True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Perseverance, Courage, Wind

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• I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Children, Wind

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.85, Open Road Media

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• You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dream, Sky, Needs

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.134, Macmillan

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• When the winds of adversity come, remember one thing--kites fly the very highest against the wind. Kites don't fly in spite of opposition, kites fly high because of opposition. In fact, they couldn't fly without opposition.

  John By

  Adversity, Wind, Facts

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• Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

  Sherry Thomas

  Wind, Wings, Giving

  Sherry Thomas (2012). “Ravishing the Heiress”, p.189, Penguin

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• I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Long, Tornadoes, Strings

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.691, Dell

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• a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

  Leonard Cohen

  Victim

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.43, Random House

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• The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

  William Arthur Ward

  Fall, Optimistic, Flying High

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• I've never flown a kite.

  David Benioff

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• Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Adversity, Wind, Littles

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.27, Penguin

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Growing Up, Memories, Flying

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Heart, Mind, Safe

  Elizabeth Berg (2010). “The Pull of the Moon: A Novel”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.

  Pharrell Williams

  Air, Needs, Like You

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• A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.

  Simon Napier-Bell

  Thinking, Expression, Order

  Simon Napier-Bell (2013). “I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch: A fantastic tale of boys, booze and how Wham! were sold to China”, p.273, Random House

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• Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail. Then they get caught in a tree; you climb up and bring them down, and untangle the string; you run to get them aloft again. Finally, the kite is airborne, and it flies higher and higher, as you let out more string, until it's so high in the sky, it looks like a bird. And if the string snaps, and you've done your job right, the kite will continue to soar in the wind, all by itself.

  Charmian Carr

  Running, Jobs, Children

  Charmian Carr (2001). “Forever Liesl: A Memoir of The Sound of Music”, p.106, Penguin

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• A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

  Takuboku Ishikawa

  Taken, Cutting, Soul

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• Today is the day when bold kites fly,
  When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
  When robins return, when children cheer,
  When light rain beckons spring to appear.
  
  Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
  Which children pick to fill the room,
  Today is the day when grasses green,
  When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen.

  Robert McCracken

  Cheer, Children, Spring

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• To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.

  George Herbert

  Eye, Too Much

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

  Les Dawson

  Witty, Wind, Doctors

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