Paper Airplanes Quotes

• I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Heart, Airplane

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• I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

  Steve Toltz

  Airplane, Eye, Moon

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

  John McPhee

  Airplane, Class, Floating

  John McPhee (1982). “Basin and Range”, p.25, Macmillan

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• A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Children, Moving, Airplane

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• Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Kids

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• You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Airplane, Perfect

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• ....a perfect paper airplane.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Airplane, Perfect, Paper

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.622, Simon and Schuster

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• Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

  Matt Taibbi

  Airplane, Two, United States

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