Flying Quotes - Page 2

• We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, Yoga

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  We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

  Luciano De Crescenzo

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Faith, Airplane

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Travel, Adventure, Hands

  Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

  William Shakespeare

  Shadow, Substance, Pursue

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.71

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• I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Airplane, Pilots And Flying, Fear Of Flying

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• But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Gun, Bird

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

  Plautus

  Wings, Aviation, Flight

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The ro".

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• You've got to keep things flying.

  Keith Emerson

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• I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

  Bessie Coleman

  Women, School, African American

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• I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

  Sadako Sasaki

  Life, Peace, Passion

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• Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

  Tom Robbins

  Flying Saucers, Rescue

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.241, Bantam

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• Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sky, Earth Day

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Fall, Boys

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• Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Adventure, Space

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

  Harold Wilson

  Should Have, Chance, Equal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

  Amelia Earhart

  Airplane, Sky, Tree

  "How Aerial Photography Changes A Photographer’s Perspective" by Heather Hummel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.

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• There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Funny, Science, Fire

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

  Neil H. McElroy

  Travel, Men, Airports

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• I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

  Ron Reagan

  Airplane, Airline Business, Air Force

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• The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

  Kelly Preston

  Husband, Giving, Airline

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• It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself

  Bobby Darin

  Space, Anxiety, Leaving

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• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Space, Argument, Protest

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