Kites Quotes - Page 4

• Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Stories, Firsts

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

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• He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Rip, Lying, Eye

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.67, Penguin

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• I have loved this life.  I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth.  And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Play, Laughing

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• Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky;
  wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back

  Joshua Harris

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Wind

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.40, Multnomah

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• One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.

  David O. McKay

  Time, Fall, Adversity

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• Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

  Chinua Achebe

  Eagles, Wings, Break

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.14, Heinemann

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• Look, if you can indulge in your passion, life will be far more interesting than if you're just working.  You'll work harder at it, and you'll know more about it. But first you must go out and educate yourself on whatever it is that you've decided to do - know more about kite-surfing than anyone else. That's where the work comes in. But if you're doing things you're passionate about, that will come naturally.

  Richard Branson

  Hard Work, Passion, Indulge In

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• When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Wind, Bird

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• Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

  Jim Rohn

  Disappointment, Wind, Bridges

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• We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.

  Andrea Gibson

  Night, Light, Storm

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• I’ve flown kites before and I know – sometimes they’re gone forever, and sometimes they’re just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I’ve had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing for.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Waiting, Forever, Lucky

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.

  Robert Benchley

  Character, Sunday, People

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Spring, Blue, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a kite you can throw into the air.Pull me by string and horse.Tell me everything won't end in death. That everything doesn't end with February. Dead wildflowers wrapped around a crying baby's throat.I've slowed my heartbeat to three beats a minute. I've redrawn the clouds into birds, a fox chasing them into the mountains.I'm going to move my hand today.I vomit ice cubes.There's a ghost next to me.Get up, Dad.(Light Boxes)

  Shane Jones

  Running, Baby, Horse

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• Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Kids, Independent, Good Luck

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.45, A&C Black

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• I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.

  Deke Slayton

  Nice, Sunny Afternoon, Feet

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• In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women. At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fighting, Games, People

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

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• ... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Order, Wind, Needs

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• It isn’t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Children, Heart, Giving

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Months, Hours, Let Him Go

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.78, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Broken, Feelings, Trying

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• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Morning, Ocean, Adventure

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• They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.

  Shane Jones

  Summer, Mother, Morning

  Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Thinking, Giving, Surfing

  "Vanessa Hudgens: Hey Look! She's All Grown Up". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2010.

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• The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Plot, Stories

  "Interview: Khaled Hosseini". Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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