Flight Quotes
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Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
Claudio Magris
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Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
William Barclay
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I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.
Aoife O'Donovan
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The never-ending flight Of future days.
John Milton
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I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.
Jimmy Doolittle
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac
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The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.
Elizabeth Knox
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I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.
Erika Christensen
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Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.
William Cullen Bryant
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Seneca the Younger
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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor
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The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
Anzia Yezierska
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
Alexander Graham Bell
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If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.
Eric Nicol
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This is a milestone event in the history of aerospace. For the first time in all of space flight, a facility is now available for regularly scheduled, private space launches. Thanks to the vision of the State of New Mexico, as well as the aerospace capabilities provided by our company, the 'final frontier' is now open to everyone.
Eric Knight
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It was a wizard flight.
Brian Trubshaw
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That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city. The Temple of Heaven slipped by underneath, that perfect pattern in its ample park. Then the wide plain ruled to the far horizon. Soon the aerodrome.
Cecil Arthur Lewis
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With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.
Ernest Rhys
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They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.
Angelina Jolie
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This flight was an engineer's dream. We are collecting so much data. We are looking at several different types of sensors. We are doing things we never imagined we would be able to do.
Charles Camarda
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This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
Steve Fossett
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
Simon Newcomb
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Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
Bill Vaughan