“Brickhill, Paul. Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC. London: Odhams Press Ltd., 1954..”

“Our little drawing Room [Constable's lodgings at Hamptstead with a view on London] commands a view unequalled in Europe — from Westminster Abbey to Gravesend — the dome of St Paul's in the Air — realizes Michael Angelo's Idea on seeing that of the Pantheon — 'I will build such a thing in the Sky.”

“London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.”

“And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.”

“Disability is not a hindrance to reach the sky”

“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”

“we reach with our hands
and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky
to reach the moon and Mars
but we still can't reach the truth”

“With all the reaching out that's going around here, the President said Thursday in his press conference that he was reaching out to the press corp. What did he mean by that and why would he feel the need to reach out to a group of supposedly non-partisan people?”

“With the completion of Shepherd’s Grosvenor Square houses, about 1730, the development of urban design in London ceases, for a time, to be of much interest. The story, however, continues and reaches its climax in Bath where street design developed in a most important way for a matter of forty years.”

“It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender”