“Call the sun in the dead of the night
And the sun gonna rise in the sky
Touch a man who can't walk upright
And that lame man, he gonna fly.
And I fly, yeah, And I fly.”

“You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly.
She took off to find the footlights,
And I took off for the sky.
And here, she's acting happy,
Inside her handsome home.
And me, I'm flying in my taxi,
Taking tips, and getting stoned,
I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.”

Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician

“Before the rising sun we fly,
So many roads to choose
We start out walking and learn to run.”

Paul Williams (songwriter) (1940) American composer, singer, songwriter and actor

“Life is like a bird. Whose purpose of life is only to keep flying in the open sky. Do not imprison him in the cage of your misery because he suffocates and he torments day and night in the cage. Release him to fly in the open sky because he has the courage to touch the heights of the sky. Imprisoned in a cage, he loses his confidence and forgets to fly.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

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

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“A man will rise, a man will fall. From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“Would a fly without wings be called a walk?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.”

James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer

“Yeah, that would fly.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“Time to fly away,
Gentlemen, please.
Fly away into the abyss,
Every night at 9 o'clock
We fly into the night once again!”

Jimmy Kennedy (1902–1984) Irish songwriter