Quotes and Sayings About Flight

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#World #Flight #Should

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
-- Adolf Galland

#Pilots #Firsts #Flight

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
-- Alan Feduccia

#Bird #Evolution #Flight

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.
-- Alan Shepard

#Real #Done #Flight

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
-- Anzia Yezierska

#Bird #Fruit #Flight

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Bird #Flight #Should

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
-- Archilochus

#Life #Prudent #Flight

No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.
-- Banesh Hoffmann

#Light #Bird #Flight

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
-- Bernhard Schlink

#Airplane #Flight #Failing

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.
-- Bertrand Piccard

#Night #Another Day #Flight

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Excellence #Microsoft #Flight

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
-- Bruno Tonioli

#Differences #Long #Flight

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
-- Caroline Wozniacki

#Player #Tennis #Flight

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
-- Charles Dickens

#Love #Suffering #Flight

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.
-- Charles Rolls

#Thinking #Flight #Predictions

My wife will tell you that I'm very particular and it's annoying for other people. I eat the same thing every day. I go to the gym at the same time every day. I go to L.A. all the time, so I take that same 9:30 flight. I will not take another one.
-- Chris Black

#People #Wife #Flight

I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator
-- Chris Colfer

#Flight #Elevators #Stairs

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone
-- Chris Cooper

#Losing #Flight #Best Work

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
-- Claudio Magris

#Journey #Flight #Standstill

My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.
-- Craig Stone

#Two #Four #Flight

You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs...
-- Dale Hansen

#Flight #Beats #Stairs

If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.
-- Dan Chiasson

#Fleeing #Flight #Made

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight...
-- Diane Duane

#Snow #Flight #Possibility

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.
-- Doug Larson

#Distance #Law #Flight

They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands
-- Drake

#Humble #Land #Flight

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.
-- E. B. White

#Writing #Firsts #Flight

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.
-- Eberhard Bethge

#Responsibility #People #Flight

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Soul #Body #Flight

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Life #Cups #Flight

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
-- Edward E. Barnard

#Wings #Fancy #Flight