474 Quotes About Flying

  • Author Hugh Laurie
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    Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.

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  • Author Melina Marchetta
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    Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again.

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  • Author T.J. Klune
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    He must get used to his feet on the ground. He can't spend all the time on wings. He'll tire, especially being so young. If he ever finds himself in danger, he needs to learn to use his legs as well as his wings.

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  • Author Julie Metz
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    I am no fan of plane travel. I have always been too skeptical of the physics of the phenomenon to ever be truly comfortable in an airplane.

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  • Author Beth Kephart
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    When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer’s; you should have seen your grandmother’s face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I’d launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.

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  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    Swimming feels wonderful—almost as good as flying through the air,” Tsukuru explained to Sara one time. “Have you ever flown through the air?” she asked. “Not yet,” Tsukuru said.

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  • Author Hermann Hesse
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    The impetus that makes you fly is the great store of humanity that each of us possesses. It's the feeling of interconnectedness with the roots of all power, but we soon get alarmed by it! It's damned dangerous! And so most people are glad to give up flying; they prefer walking on the sidewalk, following the rules and regulations.

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