Fly Away Quotes - Page 4

I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

Richard Brautigan

Believe, Fire, Long

Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

6 Copy quote

Show source
Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life, Tree, Burden

65 Copy quote
Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

Lenny Kravitz

Song, Paris, Certain

4 Copy quote
Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

Alicia Keys

Giving Up, Air, Sky

Song: Un-Thinkable, 2009

4 Copy quote

Show source
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace. I am a snowflake. A wisp of eiderdown, liberated from gravity. My body is light. Ephemeral. My head is light. I want to sway beneath the weight of air, dizzy with thought. Light filters through my closed eyelids. The sun, chasing shadows, tells me I'm not afloat in dreams.

Ellen Hopkins

Dream, Winter, Light

Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

7 Copy quote

Show source
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

Mark Twain

Children, Home, Boys

Mark Twain (2012). “Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion”, p.124, BookCaps Study Guides

4 Copy quote

Show source
[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.

Homer

Dream, Strong, White

4 Copy quote
She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.

Maggie Stiefvater

Girl, Men, Hands

4 Copy quote
There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

Jodi Picoult

Hurt, Bird, Get Better

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.170, Penguin

5 Copy quote

Show source
What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me. "Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type. "I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles. "I'd be scared to let go," I type. "Afraid you'd fall?" she asks. "No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.

Sharon M. Draper

Letting Go, Fall, Thinking

Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

11 Copy quote

Show source
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

Jacques Charles

Airplane, Calumny Is, Perfect

22 Copy quote
No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like your life, you're walking along the street, as a really bad analogy, you step on a little stone, and it just kind of flies away and you have no idea where it's going. And then you are just trying not to drown afterwards. And that's my life. See, that was really terrible.

Robert Pattinson

Mean, Ideas, The End Of The Day

4 Copy quote
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

Plutarch

Life, Pain, Grief

6 Copy quote
Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

Jacques Charles

Airplane, Perfect, Flying

27 Copy quote
‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.

Tina Fey

Mother, Dream, Jobs

"Confessions of a Juggler" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2011.

12 Copy quote

Show source
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

Marc Maron

Mistake, Stupid, Humility

Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Random House Group

26 Copy quote

Show source
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, Flying

7 Copy quote
When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't startle them or they'll fly away!...we need to soothe them so they can nest here and lay their magic eggs full of jobs! - WHICH NEVER HATCH BY THE WAY!!!

Bill Maher

Jobs, Animal, Eggs

11 Copy quote
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.

Robert Frost

Song, Keys, Doors

Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.331, Harvard University Press

4 Copy quote

Show source
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Charles Spurgeon

Land, Promise, Nests

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.78

17 Copy quote

Show source
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

Thomas Watson

Christian, Wings, Grace

8 Copy quote
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

Ovid

Flower, Opportunity, Aids

8 Copy quote
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Edith Piaf

Dove, Should, Curtains

44 Copy quote
Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

Gelsey Kirkland

Dance, Struggle, Hands

13 Copy quote
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Charles Jencks

Attitude, Thinking, Knowing

7 Copy quote

You May Also Like Quotes On:

Flying

Harry Potter

Aviation