To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Otto Lilienthal

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Lewis Carroll

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
Dolley Madison

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.
Andrew Shue

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
Bill Williams

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
John Cage

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
James Cromwell

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

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Charlie Dent

We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.
Niki Lauda

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

We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.
Robin Gibb

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
John Harrison

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.
Picabo Street

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.
Pete Coors

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
Norman MacCaig

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard Branson

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
Robert Bridges

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
William Law