Balloon Quotes

• I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.

  

  John Prine
  • Air
  • Person
  • Child

• A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Air
  • Balloon
  • Helium

• Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

  

  David Feherty
  • Golf
  • Drunk
  • Cliff

• A house, a carriage, a balloon, a ship, a racing stallionocerosupine! Is that a thing? It sounds like it ought to be, so let’s say it is!

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • House
  • Thing
  • Ship

• What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?

  

  Colin Rowe
  • Airplane
  • Balloon
  • Helium

• The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

  

  Alberto Santos-Dumont
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Balloon

• Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space.

  

  Alfred Worden
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Balloon

• Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Care
  • Flying
  • Balloon

• Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

  

  Daniel R. Scoggin
  • Trying
  • Excellence
  • Compromise