Flying Quotes - Page 30

• You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.

  Inglis M. Uppercu

  Aviation, Nickels, Airline

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• I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.

  Naomi Campbell

  Humorous, Mind, Air Travel

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• When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

  Martin Amis

  Aviation, Nervous, Valium

  "Did I say that? Martin Amis" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• There is a town in north Ontario,
  With dream comfort memory to spare,
  And in my mind
  I still need a place to go,
  All my changes were there.
  
  Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
  Yellow moon on the rise,
  Big birds flying across the sky,
  Throwing shadows on our eyes.

  Neil Young

  Dream, Stars, Memories

  Neil Young (2008). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook)”, p.23, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Blow, Sky

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?

  Lucille Clifton

  Girl, Mother, Husband

  Lucille Clifton (2013). “The Book of Light”, p.41, Copper Canyon Press

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  I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly.

  Miranda Lambert

  Knows, Ifs

  Song: New Strings, Album: Kerosene, 2005

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• I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Sky, Wings, Spread

  Song: Breakaway, Album: Breakaway, 2004

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• Let your soul and spirit fly.

  Van Morrison

  Soul, Spirit, Your Soul

  Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

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• Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Escaping, Boredom

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• I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive
  I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise
  To fly.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fighting, Winning, Conquer

  Song: Fly I Believe I Can Fly, Album: Pink Friday

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• Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Running, Song, Might

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• One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

  Tomas Eloy Martinez

  Persons, Oneself, Asks

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• What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Dresses, Want

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• I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

  Ben Harper

  Fall, Flying High, Dying

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• In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

  Walter Scott

  War, Dying, Battle

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.81

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• It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of peoples deeds (on that day), and I never see swarms of locusts except that I think about the Great Gathering on the Last Day."

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Fall, Islamic

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• After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale.

  John T. Schuessler

  Years, Unconventional, Information

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• There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Technology, Thinking, Air

  "Sotomayor: Americans Should be Alarmed by Spread of Drones" by Jacob Gershman, www.politico.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I saw you dancing out the ocean
  Running fast along the sand
  A spirit born of earth and water
  Fire flying from your hands

  Elton John

  Running, Song, Ocean

  Song: The One Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: The One

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• You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Climbing, Firsts

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• Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Creativity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Рипол Классик

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• When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Nice, Sunset, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.

  John McLeod

  Music, Song, Fall

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• I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Positive, Giving Up, Light

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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