Flew Quotes

• My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

  Alan Bradley

  Husband, Grandmother, Air

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• This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

  Ken Kesey

  Wise, Strong, Law

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Determination, Brother

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• When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

  Theodore White

  Song, Night, Soldier

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• A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Eggs, Ducks, Water

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• I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Schedules, World, Film

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• The golden hours on angel wings
  Flew o'er me and my dearie,
  For dear to me as light and life
  Was my sweet Highland Mary.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Sweet, Angel

  1789 'Highland Mary', stanza 2.

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• I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Dream, Airplane, Kids

  "The Unflinching Eye: Photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. July 12, 1987.

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• In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

  Peter Mullan

  Thinking, Perfection, Cinema

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• In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Horse, Dark

  Gustave Flaubert (1999). “Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

  Robert Pattinson

  Rome, Flying, Tears

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• NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

  Rachael Ray

  Space, Fake, Desire

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• It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.

  Monte Irvin

  Running, Home, Mvp

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• The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Pain, Stress, Home

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• You cannot choose your battlefield,
  The Gods do that for you;
  But you can plant a standard
  Where a standard never flew.

  Nathalia Crane

  Business, Society, Doe

  "The Singing Crow And Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("The Colors"), 1926.

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• I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

  Bill Bryson

  Paris, Water, Achievement

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• I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Doors, Two

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 13, 2010.

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• I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

  George McGovern

  Europe, Oil, Tanks

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• I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie.

  Woody Harrelson

  Daughter, New York, Character

  "Woody Harrelson claims he mistook photographer for zombie" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2009.

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• If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.

  Antony Flew

  Atheist, Believe, Atheism

  Antony Flew, John Shosky (1998). “Philosophical Essays”, p.6, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature. But it is not science alone that has guided me. I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments.

  Antony Flew

  Philosophical, Law, Three

  "One Flew out of the atheists’ nest" by William West, www.mercatornet.com. April 1, 2009.

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• In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

  Antony Flew

  Space, Forever, Understanding

  Antony Flew (2000). “Merely Mortal?: Can You Survive Your Own Death?”

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• But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

  Ken Kesey

  Real, Men, Doors

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.

  Ken Kesey

  Couple, Rip, Party

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide)”, SparkNotes

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• The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

  Antony Flew

  Love Is, Inspire, Islam

  "The Terrors of Islam". Atheist Notes, No. 6, 2004.

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