Kites Quotes - Page 2

• Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Art, Order, Land

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• Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fun, Cat, Bed

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• For you, a thousand times over

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Circularity, Slingshots

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.110, A&C Black

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• You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

  Alan Cohen

  Delight, Littles, Gravity

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• A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Light, Vacuums, Speed

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• Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Dream, Flower, Sky

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• The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Wind

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• I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Strong, Real

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• No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Responsibility, Men, Overcoming

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• The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Men, Wind

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• Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

  William Carleton

  Fire, Advice, Affirmation

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• The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Heart, Literature

  'Emblems' (1635) bk. 1, no. 12 'Hugo de Anima'

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• Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

  Dr. Seuss

  Friday, Uncles, Night

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• Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

  Will Carleton

  Fall, Boys, Fire

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• It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Past, Peeking, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

  John J. Geddes

  Fear, Thinking, Tails

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• Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.

  Jeff Buckley

  Hands, Soul, Shapes

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Desire, Scream

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• If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

  Diana Loomans

  Running, Stars, Children

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• The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Fashion, Spring, Wings

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• With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Family, Running, Men

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• I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Couple, Betrayal, Regret

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Men, Female

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• Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.

  Jan Carlzon

  Real, Teaching, Learning

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