#flying

Some days I miss flying so much it makes my entire chest hurt, feels like I can't breathe sometimes. I try not to think about the fact that I'll never have thousands of feet of air between me and the ground again. But it's those times that I have to remind myself that at least I got the chance to do it sometime in my life. A couple dozen solo flights are better than having never done it at all. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#flying #missing #life

Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#flying #josephine #life

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#nature #nature

‎They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are angry with you?" "Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have chicken feet, I have eagle wings." "And what is so wrong with having eagle wings and no chicken feet?" Asked the old owl. "I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to find out." "They hate you because you know that you are an eagle and they want you to think you are a chicken so that you will peck at the ground looking for ants and worms, so that you will never know that you are an eagle and always think yourself a chicken. Let them hate you, they will always be chickens, and you will always be an eagle. You must fly. You must soar." Said the old owl. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#eagles #fable #fables #flying #inspirational

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#become #cheapest #dream #flying #had

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#brothers #days #flying #hadn #line

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #cathedral #culture #disbelief #doing

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#done #flying #into #life #life science

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#away #concentration #detail #engaging #find

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#air #flying #ground #late #no point