Quotation Explorer - 'Flight'

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
I know it's the belief that women should never show daring in front of men. Never be bold when men hesitate. I know flight is not the answer; even to save our lives. - Empress Theodora
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci
Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix. - Eric Wald
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer. - Franz Kafka
Love can flow like the river, fly with the bird, sing with the crickets at night. It is in the energy of the river, the flight of the bird, the song from the cricket. There is nowhere where love is not. - Janet G. Nestor
A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight. - Fatema Mernissi
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past. - Gordon Atkinson
Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return. - Ali R.A
When the wolf howls and the moon dimshope fades with the waning light. Evil lurks at every turn as shadows waltz across the ebony night. Behold the midnight hour where all of reason takes flight. - Grace Willows
Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel. - Munia Khan
If you reach for the stars, but only touch the sky, isn't that better than never knowing the sweet taste of flight? - Erin Kouvas
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state. - Robert Henri
Even if I don't have wings to fly, I'll close my eyes and open my heart; then I'll make love my wings and hope the winds that give me flight. - Imania Margria
Despite her fears she found,The secret to an outstanding life,Is risking the fall,For the possibility of flight. - Kyra Jackson
Reality was once a dream that took flight. - Shannon L. Alder
...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry. - Kevin Fong
It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine. - C. JoyBell C.
His flight was madness: when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors. - William Shakespeare
Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die - Munia Khan
-The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. - Tennessee Williams
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there. - Meister Eckhart
Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap - Chet Raymo
In certain circumstances, basically shit ones, it’s fight or flight. With Tommy it’s always fright and flight. - Terry Weible Murphy
Taking your language into my soul, feeling it separate from sentences to words burning with flight, ‘til all I have left are meaningless letters pushing fire through my veins. Words can draw blood if you’re very, very careful. - Broken Places - Rachel Thompson
Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician. - Orville Wright
HAVING NEVER taken a decent holiday before, I decided on a trip to Thailand, booked a flight and flew out the following week. Mate, I loved it. The friendly people, the food, the females! - Simon Palmer
Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy. - Auliq Ice
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
Today I will fly in the peaceful blue sky with a flight of doves. - Debasish Mridha
The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers. - Shannon L. Alder
When you fall so many times, you become the master of flight. - Nikki Rowe
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. - Plato
Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. - Walt Disney Company
And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole. - Shaun Hick
Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination. - Alexandre Dumas
Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction. - Raymond A. Mar
First the nest; then the flight. - Marty Rubin
Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. - Seneca
She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic. - Joss Whedon
Every flight begins with a fall - George R.R. Martin
Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them. - Nikki Rowe
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form. - Plato
The DoveFly your flight my dear doveSing your song, make it reach the oceanI want my freedomI want to live in peaceI want to sing your songTo have your wingsTo be able to flyI want my destiny to leave the path that it is taking now. - Eduardo Carrasco
Each day is a good daybecause it's a day, not a night,each flight is a good flight. - Rohvannyn Shaw
Blood is everywhere..Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks;for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian flesh. - Munia Khan
Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet - Lynn Payne
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci
Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight? - Jesmyn Ward
To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records. - Sarah Manguso
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. - Shannon L. Alder
The strength within you is the fuel for farther flight - Lailah Gifty Akita
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark. - Douglas Adams
When did your flight plan become a holding pattern, always circling happiness, but never allowed to land? Distracted by in-flight movies, drinks, and snacks, until the fuel runs out. Is this really all there is? Is this what you want out of life? - John Mark Green
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