Quotes about fly
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“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”
Source: The Complete Poems
“One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.”
Source: Code Name Verity

“Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.”
Source: Batman: Year One

“I flutter all ways, and fly in none.”

Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”
Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Eye of the World

Into the Mystic
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)


Discussing his game-winning 7/14/61 grand slam, and contrasting it with a prodigious shot hit on 5/6/60 http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Roberto_Clemente%27s_%27Toolbox%27:_The_Club#Clemente.27s_majestic_May_6.2C_1960_blast_into_the_teeth_of_Candlestick.27s_crosswind.2C_described_by_Arnold_Hano, also at Candlestick Park; as quoted in "The Big Grand Slam: Clemente Was All Set" by Phil Berman, in The San Francisco Chronicle (Saturday, July 15, 1961), p. 26
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1961</big>

HISTORY https://web.archive.org/web/20030401221233/http://ejectejecteject.com/archives/000039.html (29 March 2003)
2000s
Song Flying in the Night
Song lyrics
“We learned dwarves are not meant to fly." came a voice from the edge of the circle.”
Wizardry Cursed

Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World (1987)
As quoted in TIME magazine (4 January 1988)
1980s
Variant: Soviet rockets can find Halley's comet and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but . . . many household appliances are of poor quality.
Source: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 6 (pp. 137-138)

St. 4.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
“A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.”
in his autobiography, as quoted by [Peter Louis Galison, Bruce William Hevly, Big science: the growth of large-scale research, Stanford University Press, 1992, 0804718792, 55]
“Life's too short, babe, time's a-flying. I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine.”
Rent (1996)
“Ideologies that seek a return to a mythical purity are flying in the face of hard science.”
David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018, p.179

Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxii

“Catch me as I fly
Passing by at night
Watch me as I go”
Song lyrics

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
"Sisters Under the Skin, or Fashion Makes the Fur Fly," Time for a Quick One (1940), p. 118.

De Abaitua interview (1998)
Hearing on H.R. 6385 (April 1937)

'Islam's Gangster Tactics', in the London Independent newspaper , 1989
Writing

"Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)

Speaking with Nellie King in 1967 or later; as quoted by King in "Frustration in the Fifties" https://books.google.com/books?id=03XsO25A3I8C&pg=PA60&dq=%22As+Nellie+King+recalls,+Clemente+occasionally%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi63oCQjcfNAhWEOyYKHUvbBrMQ6AEIFDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false, from Roberto Clemente: The Great One (1998) by Bruce Markusen, pp. 60-61
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1967</big>

Review of 'What Darwin Got Wrong' by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli Palmarini (2010) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/06/what-darwin-got-wrong.

In a 2004 interview with US News & World Report. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/national/07thompson.html
Attributed

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/1009/Alan_Grayson_v_Chris_Matthews.html Grayson on Dick Cheney.
2009
“MIRRORMENT
Birds are flowers flying
and flowers perched birds.”
The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (1991)

在天願作比翼鳥
在地願為連理枝
天長地久有時盡
此恨綿綿無絶期
The last four lines.
"A Song of Unending Sorrow"
"Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" St. 1 & 8

Congressional testimony ([Why the AR-15 Is So Lethal, w:James Fallows, James, Fallows, November 7, 2017, September 2, 2018, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/why-the-ar-15-is-so-lethal/545162/]; [M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story, June 1981, September 2, 2018, w:James Fallows, James, Fallows, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/]; [If Porn Could Be Banned, Why Not AR-15s?, w:James Hamblin, James, Hamblin, February 15, 2018, October 25, 2018, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/02/on-banning-porn-vs-guns/553433/]).

“The Flying Scotsman was the first train, ever, to do 100 MPH. 147 tons doing the ton.”
I Know You Got Soul (2004)

“The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.”
J 70
Variant translation: The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

Sect. 4: Design and Assembly
"Computers Then and Now" (1968)

Barton, Clara H. The Story of My Childhood. New York: Baker & Taylor Company, 1907. Reprinted by Arno Press in 1980.
Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 1 (p. 90)

Abhinaya and Netrābhinaya
Source: Indigenous Sanskrit theatre form, The Hindu, Tuesday, Jul 31, 2007 http://www.hindu.com/br/2007/07/31/stories/2007073150031600.htm

Morgenes leaned forward, waggling the leather-bound volume under Simon’s nose. “A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever. The more books you have,” the doctor waved an all-encompassing hand about the room, “the more traps, then the better chance of capturing some particular, elusive, shining beast—one that might otherwise die unseen.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 7, “The Conqueror Star” (pp. 92-93).

Gary Johnson Decries Domestic Drones
rawstory
2012-02-19
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/19/gary-johnson-decries-domestic-drones-big-brother-is-alive-and-well/
2012-02-24
2011

The Other World (1657)

Letter to General Henry Dearborn, Secretary of War (August 9, 1808) in regards to enforcing the American embargo.
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)

"The End; <i>Live in New York</i>" (1970), "The End; Live at The Hollywood Bowl" (1968)
Source: Adam Nankervis, " A Stitch in time http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=707," in: Mousse Magazine.it, Issue 29, 2015

Source: King of Siam Rama I The-Ramayana https://books.google.co.in/books?id=OvqbCHa3zWkC&pg=PA19, Islamic Books, 1967, p. 19.

Luxembourg, 23 may, from accounts with myself. [citation needed]
2000s - 2010s

Saturday Afternoon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“Villain, a horse--
Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly,
To swim the river, villain, and to fly.”
Battle of Alcazar (acted 1588-1589, printed 1594), act V, l:104, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Published anonymously, but attributed with much probability to Peele.

To a Dragon-fly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Psyche
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)

1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)

Interview With the Associated Press Editorial Board http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2007/06/86248.htm, June 8, 2007.

On the Record
Fox News
2011-03-07
2010s

Woman & Home (July 2000)

In Memorable Quotes from Rajiv Gandhi and on Rajiv Gandhi (2009) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=L5bTCgLM1lYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, Quote 37
Quote

Rediff, April 4, 1997. " If the motivation is strong enough, I'll fly to the moon http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t3KMttIk5NwJ:www.rediff.com/entertai/apr/04rahl.htm+%22Still+dressed+in+his+night+clothes+and+sporting+a+hep+stubble,%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a" by Suparn Varma

“Defiantly live, or in honour die, Midst slashing blades and banners flying high.”
Source: A Young Soul

Expecting to Fly, from Buffalo Springfield Again
Song lyrics, With Buffalo Springfield

"Death to My Hometown"
Song lyrics, Wrecking Ball (2012)

See " The Evil of Madeleine Albright http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/10/the-evil-of-madeleine-albright/" by Gary Leupp
Disputed