Quotes about fly
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“Why does she have wings?'
So she can fly.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O. K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

God, Flying

“If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War”

D.J. MacHale book The Never War

Source: The Never War

War, Flying

“And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Flying

“Fly you high.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Source: Gregor the Overlander Box Set

Flying

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.”

George Gordon Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Pleasure, Youth, Sleep, Joy

“I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God

World, Idea, Personality, Flying

“If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain
We'd hunt down Love together,
Pluck out his flying-feather,
And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic

Love, Pain, Pleasure, Flying

“She stared at me. "Fly,; ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?"
"Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Flying

“If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?"
"Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive."
"Mockingjays do.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

People, Flying

“Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Horse, Flying

“Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give
Trent his statue."

"Pow, you'll be naked!" Jenks exclaimed.

(Rachel and Jenks)”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Way, Flying

“How'd you get in here?"
She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Flying

“You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly"
-Baby Carlyle”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

Source: You Just Can't Get Enough

Baby, Flying

“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Way, Hell, Suffering, Flying

“He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Thinking, Flying

“And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

Joy, Flying

“When a man is born… there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Religion, Flying

“I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me happy, she makes me sad, she makes me try harder, she makes me laugh, and she makes me feel like I can fly. Isn't that the goddamn definition of Love?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Love, Happiness, Sadness, Feeling

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 1: Puget Sound and British Columbia <br class="br">1910s

Beauty, Star, Universe, Appearance

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

Charles Addams (1912–1988) Cartoonist

Flying

“When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you
Either you'll find something solid to stand on
Or you'll be taught how to fly!”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Light, Flying

“There is no greater fan of fly fishing then the worm.”

Patrick F. McManus (1933–2018) American journalist

Fish, Flying

“… it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”

Franz Kafka Letter to His Father

Source: Letter to His Father

Sun, Flying

“Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

Love, Feeling, Flying

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model

Source: Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some (2005)

Imagination, Flying

“You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly.
Mom!
What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Moms, Dance, Flying

“I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Life, Question, Flying

“It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

Soul, Flying

“I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Speed, Flying

“When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Books, World, Mood, Science

“Yeah, that would fly.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Flying

“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death
Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Death, Flying

“Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Dreams, Thinking, Time, Flying

“We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

Gloria Gaither (1942) American gospel songwriter, author & scholar

Way, Chance, Flying

“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Variant: All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Flying

“The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out.

Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: The Impossible

Cry, Flying, Night

“We can’t make a portal—”
“We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Flying

“Flying daggers don't kill people, Chloe thought, leaping sidewise at the last minute to avoid one, grabbing the pedestrian rail. People kill people.”

Celia Thomson (1950) American writer of fiction for children and young adults

Source: The Fallen

People, Flying

“Belatedly, Clary recalled something. "I thought you guys said onlyof the vampire bikes could fly?"… [Jace:]"Only some of them can!" "How did you know this was one of them?" "I didn't!" he shouted gleefully…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Guy, Flying

“I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!"
"Finish your eggs first.”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

Sun, Flying

“I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Kiss, Flying

“Percy: "Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?"

Blackjack: "Why do humans swing their arms as they walk? I dunno, boss. It just feels right.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Variant: Why do you need to gallop while you fly?"
"Why do humans have to sway their arms while they walk? I dunno boss, but it just feels right.
Source: The Last Olympian

Feeling, Flying

“Always seek less turbulent skies.
Hurt. Fly above it.
Betrayal. Fly above it.
Anger. Fly above it.
You are the one who is flying the plane.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Betrayal, Hurt, Flying, Anger

“We were restless for ages… After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Love, God, Age, Thinking

“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Flying

“Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.

I remember how to fly.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Nightfall

Flying

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

Love, Flying

“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Bee, Flying

“Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

Life, Flying

“Some people insist that “mediocre” is better than “best.” They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah!”

Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 9

People, Flying

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Reality, Flying

“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Thinking, Flying

“For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)

Flying

“She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Angels, Loneliness, Cry, Flying

“There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.”

Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz

Source: Save Me the Waltz

Support, Flying

“My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.”

Juliet Marillier (1948) New Zealand fiction writer

Strong, Water, Heart, Flying

“There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Dreams, Sleep, Flying

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

Trina Paulus Hope for the Flowers

Variant: How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Source: Hope for the Flowers

Flying

“No," Jace agreed. "We don't fly. We break and enter.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Flying

“Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.”

John Gierach (1946) American sportswriter

Source: Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury

Idea, Nature, Fish, Flying