Flying Quotes

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.

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

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

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.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

There is nothing better in life than sliding down snow before flying through the air.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.

I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.

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

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.