Fly Quotes

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

God, Knowledge, Ignorance

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams

Love, Sound, Deadlines

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

Job, Beat, Grass

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

Fire, Country, Advice

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Cannot, Dance, Learn

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare

Others, Bear, Tis

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

God, Men, Cannot

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach

Find, Eyes, Show

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Able, Goes, Bee

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
Ayrton Senna

Power, Experience, Mind

For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.
Charlie Sheen

Lonely, Two, Around

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

Life, Dreams, Die

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
Henry Miller

Control, Revolution, Two

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers

Bad, Rage, Landing

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Different, Same

You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest Hemingway

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

Soul, Earth, Bird

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi

Life, Love, Moment

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya

Mouth, Wicked, Poison

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius

Again, Earth, Native

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken

Write, Moon, Lack

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Long, Nothing

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Richard Bach

Thought, Knowing, Fast

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas Adams

Order, Miss, Simply

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Dreams, Government, Free

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita

Silence, Means, Speech

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas

Earth, Fish, Ocean

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