quotes about Kites
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
-- Alan Cohen -
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 -
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 -
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I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"
-- Demetri Martin -
My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.
-- Emily M. Danforth -
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie -
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
-- Horace -
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn -
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
-- Jeff Bridges -
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 -
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Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
-- Lawrence Hargrave -
A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.
-- Randall Dale Adams -
Its build quality is superb, given that I am a novice to it 6 months ago and being heavy handed it stands up very well. I have trouble thinking of something I enjoy more than setting off and popping the kite and screaming downwind!
-- Steve Robson -
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
-- William Arthur Ward -
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For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.
-- Marc Forster -
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
-- Jim Moran