Best 284 quotes in «flight quotes» category

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Dad, I left my heart up there.

Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

Every week I'll be spending money on flights, accommodation, stringing and even things as simple as taxis, meals out and, of course, paying the other members of my team. I'm still very careful, though, with what I'm spending.

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

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.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

How do you get off a non-stop flight?

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

I actually had four space flights altogether, three times on shuttles. My second flight was really unique for me because I was going back into space, first of all. The first one was like an appetizer at a nice dinner. You know, you want to go up and you want more. So, the second time I got into space, it was neat because I got to actually do two space walks.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don't understand her accent - I will go hungry for the entire flight.

I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA astronauts there, I was the only so-called American Astronaut there. We had astronauts from most of the other countries, certainly from Russia, from France, from Japan, several other countries, but it was a little bit odd because here we are at an international gathering of a lot of astronauts and I'm talking about somewhere upwards of 30 or so astronauts, and I'm the only American. And I wasn't even there in an official capacity.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

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.

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight.

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.