Flight Quotes - Page 5

• Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.

  Michael Parfit

  Thinking, Magic, Aviation

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• Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

  Tim Allen

  Reality, Denver, Santa Clause

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• Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Strong, Overcoming

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

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• Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

  Amelia Earhart

  Travel, Fun, Flying

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

  Katherine Stinson

  Strong Women, Fear, Flying

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• How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

  Edward Young

  Blessing, Literature

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.38

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• The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Heart, Flying, Soul

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press

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• Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Space, Machines

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• I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

  Aoife O'Donovan

  Bird, Fascinated

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• On both of my flights, everything went very well.

  Sally Ride

  Wells

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• Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

  Anne Rice

  Sweet, Wings, Vampire

  "Interview with the Vampire". Book by Anne Rice, May 5, 1976.

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• Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fighting, Screw Ups, Unwind

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

  Chris Colfer

  Stairs, Elevators, Manage

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• The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Equality, Egalitarianism, Imagination

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sorry, Discovery, Age

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• One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Islands, Sea, Wings

  Sir Richard Francis Burton (1863). “Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po”, p.65

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• Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

  Plato

  Inspiration, Sadness, Order

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• Beware of the flight of Blessings,
  For nothing that runs away is returned.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Running, Wisdom, Islamic

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• The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

  Plato

  Wings, Race, Flying

  Plato (1953). “Plato: With an English Translation”

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• In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Soul, Rectitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.112, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

  Claudio Magris

  Journey, Standstill

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Safety, Unattainable

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• What then remains, but well our power to use,
  And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?
  And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,
  When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Air, Use

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.124

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• If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, Plums

  "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

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