Flying Quotes

  • Birds of a color fly to the same place.~ Welsh Proverb
  • Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
  • Don’t try to fly before you have wings.~ French Proverb
  • Even an eagle will not fly higher than the sun.~ Russian Proverb
  • Falling hurts least those who fly low.~ Chinese Proverb
  • Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. ~ James Dickey
  • Flying birds have no master.~ French Proverb
  • Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.~ Douglas Adams
  • Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. ~Titus Maccius Plautus
  • God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.~ Turkish Proverb
  • 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. ~ Neil McElroy
  • I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I’m just soul on a sunbeam. ~ Richard Bach
  • I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport…. ~Amy Johnson
  • Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.~ James Thurber
  • No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.~ Danish Proverb
  • No need to teach an eagle to fly.~ Greek Proverb
  • Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.~ Golda Meir
  • The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be? – it is the same the angels breathe. ~ Mark Twain
  • The butterfly who settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it.~ Armenian Proverb
  • The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. ~ Cesar Pelli
  • The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. ~ Walter Raleigh
  • The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~ G.K. Chesterton
  • The roast duck can fly no more.~ Chinese Proverb
  • There is no flying without wings.~ French Proverb
  • They quarrel about an egg and let the hen fly.~ German Proverb
  • To fall is not painful for those who fly low.~ Chinese Proverb
  • True courage consists not in flying from the storms of life, but in braving and steering through them with prudence.~ Hannah Webster Faster
  • Words have no wings but they can fly many thousands of miles.~ Korean Proverb
  • When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.~ Traditional Proverb
  • Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
  • Why fly? Simple. I’m not happy unless there’s some room between me and the ground. ~ Richard Bach
  • You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.~ Chinese Proverb
  • You cannot fly with wings made of butter.~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb
  • You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky. ~Amelia Earhart
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