Fly Quotes

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

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

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

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

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

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

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

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

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.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

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.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.