Flying Quotes

• I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

  

  John Glenn
  • Good
  • Flying

• We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

  

  Douglas Bader
  • Up
  • Enemy
  • Flying

• Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Remember
  • Flying

• In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

  

  Karan Bajaj
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Journey

• 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
  • Fly

• I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Hate
  • Flying

• ...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Heart
  • Poetry
  • Intellect

• Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • People
  • World
  • House

• Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

  

  Charles Simonyi
  • Good
  • Science
  • Space

• I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

  

  Billy Bob Thornton
  • Fear
  • Flying

• Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Pride

• I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Faith
  • Flying

• He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

  

  Joe Shuster
  • Beginning
  • Flying

• A rental car in Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of touring, we had a week off. I have a problem with flying, so instead of going home, my wife came to me and we rented a car and drove around. Just pulled off on some dirt roads...

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Car

• How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Important
  • She
  • Nature

• Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Pain
  • Dying
  • Flying

• So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • Remember
  • Future
  • College

• The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Individual
  • Flying
  • Accurate

• Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

  

  James Thurber
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sunAll torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bikeAnd I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bellAnd the last thing I see is my heart,Still beating,Breaking out of my bodyAnd flying awayLike a bat out of Hell.

  

  Jim Steinman
  • Heart
  • Dying
  • Flying

• Lydgate opened the sort of letter…'My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.' It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Husband

• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

  

  Mary Kay Ash
  • Fly
  • Flying
  • Bee

• Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Up
  • Space
  • Cool

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