Flying – Quotes

Prose is walking; poetry

Prose is walking; poetry is flying Galway Kinnell

Who wanted to creep

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying? Gail Godwin

I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated – flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes. Gail Collins

I kind of do

I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips. Gabby Douglas

There’s so much world

There’s so much world to see, what’s stopping you from flying free? Eyedea

Everything has changed. The

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed. Eydie Gorme

When I’m running fast,

When I’m running fast, I don’t feel anything, it’s effortless, it’s like my feet don’t even touch the ground, it’s like I’m flying. Evelyn Ashford

My mother had a

My mother had a premonition from the very word ‘GO.’ She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words. Eva Hart

I have had my

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, ‘Mid the keen salt kiss of the … Read more

I have always considered

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality… Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). … Read more