Flying Quotes - Page 15

You know, and I don't say this, I'll say as someone who lived in Israel for a long time, let me call myself someone who spent six or seven years in Jerusalem, we don't need any more Americans flying over to fix things. They need to fix it. I'm someone who fell in love with the city and fell in love with a place, and has high hopes for everyone there, the good people on both sides.

When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

My worst flight was flying between Macau and Osaka in 2007. The turbulence was so bad that the cabin crew were assuming their crash positions. I had more than a bit of a sweat on.

You can't get anywhere flying under the radar.