Flight Quotes

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. View quote
Albert Einstein
How blessings brighten as they take their flight. View quote
Edward Young
In love the only safety is in flight. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some folks like to get awayTake a holiday from the neighborhoodHop a flight to Miami BeachOr to HollywoodBut I'm talking a GreyhoundOn the Hudson River LineI'm in a New York state of mind. View quote
Billy Joel
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. (Richard Bach)
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. View quote
Richard Bach
How fleet is a glance of the mind Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. View quote
William Cowper
A book is like a man clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. View quote
John Steinbeck
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not. View quote
T. H. White
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. View quote
Paul Theroux
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. View quote
Victor Hugo
And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite. View quote
Umberto Guidoni
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, To die to give you life, to rest under your sky; And in your enchanted land forever sleep. (José Rizal)
I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle. View quote
Kanye West
The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking. View quote
Neil Armstrong
The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. View quote
Robert Jordan
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty. View quote
William Carlos Williams