Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. - Dalai Lama Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. - George Eliot 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 - T S Eliot In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it. - Gordon B Hinckley Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly. - Jim Hunt Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? - Frida Kahlo Feet, why do I need them...

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. - Douglas Adams The Guide says that there is an art to flying," said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack likes in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor. - Alexandra Adornetto When the soul of a man is born in this country 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 When a man is born...there are nets flung at ...

the flying fish and the diving bird had been netted. - Elizabeth Gilbert During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing. He could tell the difference between the blowing noise the male made and the sighing blow of the female. 'They are good,' he said. 'They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish. - Ernest Hemingway Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees Rustle their pale leaves listlessly, Or the drifting foam of a restless sea When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze. - Oscar Wilde When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud. - L...

There comes a time when every one of our people understands that a Jew can never be attached to a place. The rules always change, and we always lose. People will always despise us, and we must be ready to fly away. We cannot have roots in the earth of any country, only in the garden that we carry inside us. - Alice Hoffman A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe. - Fred Hoyle

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me. - Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren - Anne Sexton So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. - Richard Branson I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely. - Levar Burton I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences. - Arnold Schwarzenegger Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little s...

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous. - Elena Anaya 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 I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered. - Heather Graham The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me. - Katie Hoff I can fly a plane, but I can't fly a planet. Not without a seatbelt the size of the equator. - Jarod Kintz I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the...

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once. - Mark Twain The paper burns, but the words fly away. - Ben Joseph Akiba There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do - Jodi Picoult There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do. - Jodi Picoult We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become...