#flight

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#companions #flight #great men #heights #kept

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#attendant #child #could #doctor #everything

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#depends #flight #future #hope #i

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#confidence #cost #flight #lighter #materials

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#balcony #calling #edge #farther #flight

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#art #drive #find #flight #good

We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools. ↗

— David Petraeus

#again #al-qaeda #area #attackers #attacks

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. ↗

— Sally Ride

#background #engineer #flight #i #like

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. ↗

— Sally Ride

#flight #floating #i #just #middle

On both of my flights, everything went very well. ↗

— Sally Ride

#everything #flights #very #well #went