Fly Quotes

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy. (Aristotle)
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. View quote
Muhammad Ali
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. View quote
Richard Bach
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. View quote
Luciano De Crescenzo
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly? View quote
Frida Kahlo
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. View quote
Langston Hughes
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly. View quote
Lauren Bacall
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. View quote
Mel Brooks
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. (Tom Clancy)
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. View quote
Anton Chekhov
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly? View quote
Richard Donner
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. View quote
Saskya Pandita
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. View quote
George Eliot
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The shell must break before the bird can fly. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Move like a beam of light; Fly like lightning, Strike like thunder, Whirl in circles around A stable center. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. View quote
Samuel Johnson
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. View quote
Henry Miller
No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed. View quote
Marvin Minsky