#kite

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind. ↗

— Frank Harris

#go #kites #like #made #opposition

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#amount #certain #great #help #kites

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#crocodile #curiosity #greed #kite #greed

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#cronkite #desk #doing #growing #growing up

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#go #holds #kite #me #she

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#cronkite #give #i #lot #whole

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anyone #attention #aware #being #effects

If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#khaled #kite #runner #art

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ↗

— Anais Nin

#back #bring #country #friend #into

Freedom is the kite's response to the wind. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#kite #wind #freedom