"They say you need wings to fly...
I say you don't...
But they can't hear me
Because I'm already there."
-Advertisement for some big name corperation
"There comes a point at which you have to jump...
and either you die when you hit the ground,
or you suddenly realize you can fly."
"If your already falling you might as well try to fly."
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -Henry Van Dyke
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." -William Blake
"When caged the nightengale doesn't sing and will surely die."
"A fish cannot teach a bird to swim, nor can a bird teach a fish to fly."
"Then fly betimes, for only they
Conquer Love that run away.
Conquest of Flight."
-Thomas Carew
"Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!" -Henry David Thoreau
"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price." -Amelia Earhart
"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." -Ivan Pavlov
"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another." -Luciano de Crescenzo
"Don't discount flying pigs before you have good air defense." -jvh@clinet.FI
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water." -D. T. Suzuki
"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing." --Sir James Barrie
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet." -Rumi
"Be like the bird in flight… pausing a while on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, yet sings knowing yet, that she has wings." -Victor Hugo
"She'd tell him about her dreams
He'd just shoot 'em down
Lord he loved to make her cry
"You're crazy for believin'
You'll ever leave the ground"
He said "only angels know how to fly"
And with a broken wing
she still sings
She keeps an eye on the sky
With a broken wing
She carries her dreams
Man you oughta see her fly"
-Martina McBride, A Broken Wing
"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" Rumi
"The man who has no imagination has no wings." -Muhammad Ali
"They will soar on wings like eagles...." -Isa. 40:13
"The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her...where she would be taken care of...out of the serpent's reach." -Rev. 12:14
"But those who hope in the lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings as eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." -Isa. 40:31
