Soar Quotes - Page 6

• The final flight make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive.

  Rumi

  Home, Journey, Wings

  "The Spiritual Poems of Rumi".

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• If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moving, Events, News

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.84, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

  Rory Carroll

  Venezuela, Corruption, Cocaine

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, Energy

  "As Obama departs India, a push for reform" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2015.

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• What care though rival cities soar
  Along the stormy coast,
  Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
  If Boston knew the most!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Boston, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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• In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train and wave at the engineer. The whole sky belonged to you. now there are so many regulations. The sky is crowded. All the fun is gone.

  Katherine Stinson

  Fun, Sky, Tree

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• I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Country, Inspiration, Home

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.

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• We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Spiritual, Children, Self Esteem

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• Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

  Frank Robinson

  Baseball, Running, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

  Shashi Tharoor

  Identity Politics, Vedas, Fundamentals

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.75, Penguin Books India

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• He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?

  Ann Brashares

  Kids, Air, Hands

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.289, Random House

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• Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Sleep, Night

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• I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sister, Mother, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Stars, Eye, Wings

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.165, Diderot Publishing

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• The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Sky, Wings

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• ...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Light, Sea, Water

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• Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Air, Guitar

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Space, Fluid

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• Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, Eagles, Purple

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.152, Vintage

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• That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another's success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that's why we do what we do. That's the whole point of public service.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Roots, America

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• Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Dark, Light, Climbing

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• In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagination, Leader, Valleys

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• Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Analysis, Looks, Levels

  James Joseph Sylvester (2005). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.150, American Mathematical Soc.

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• You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

  Tana French

  Life, Rip, Fall

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• WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.

  James Salter

  Dream, Lying, Fall

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.3, Vintage

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