Top 100 Kite Quotes
#1. We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night ...
Andrea Gibson
#2. Freedom is the kite's response to the wind.
Marty Rubin
#3. I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
Paloma Faith
#4. The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
William Arthur Ward
#5. I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.
Deke Slayton
#6. In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm.
Bill Bryson
#7. The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
Horace
#8. Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
Maika Monroe
#10. I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
Khaled Hosseini
#11. Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free - The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call! - Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law!
Rudyard Kipling
#12. I feel like a tent that wants to be a kite, tugging at my stakes.
Abigail Thomas
#13. With Mr. Wright, you just grab hold of the tail of the kite. If you can hang on, you're going to go places never thought possible.
Nancy Horan
#14. On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.
Terry Pratchett
#15. I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.
Anthony Goldbloom
#16. Your kite, milady?"
She curtsied and handed it to him. "Why, thank you, Sir Tucker. Take care, though. The fabric is wont to snag.
Karen Witemeyer
#17. 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
#18. A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.
Randall Dale Adams
#19. Get off, luv, I'm high as a bloody kite. No telling what I'll do.
Jeaniene Frost
#20. Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it was connected
by string, something I was holding,
something I could always
bring back.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#21. I knew it was nothing more than the vaguest sense of connection, the kite-string tug of an intriguing stranger. But I simply wasn't ready to feel these things again.
To gather up the dust of my heart and scatter it again on the winds of hope.
Alexis Hall
#23. Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky;
wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back
Joshua Harris
#24. Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
John Muir
#25. I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
Payne Stewart
#26. True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
John Petit-Senn
#27. but the nice thing about kite-flying is nothing gets killed.
Stephen King
#28. And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.
Augusten Burroughs
#29. I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite.
Besa Kosova
#30. Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon
John Geddes
#31. 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
#32. But they were wasting their time. Because Hassan stood with his arms wide open, smiling, waiting for the kite. And may God - if He exists, that is - strike me blind if the kite didn't just drop into his outstretched arms.
Khaled Hosseini
#33. Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.
Richard Branson
#34. It is time to go. It is time to go. Forget the kite. Make a kite of your own body.
Matthew Neill Null
#35. The Wanderer
What is she like?
I was told
she is a
melancholy soul.
She is like
the sun to the night;
a momentary gold.
A star when dimmed
by dawning light;
the flicker of
a candle blown.
A lonely kite
lost in flight
someone once
had flown.
Lang Leav
#36. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall
E.J. Jackson
#37. [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.
Takuboku Ishikawa
#40. With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.
Rodney Dangerfield
#41. We're like two dogs in battle on their own;
They fought all day but neither got the bone,
There came a kite above them, nothing loth,
And while they fought he took it from them both."
From Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
#42. Never tie your happiness to the end of someone else's kite.
Beth Hoffman
#43. I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.
Alanis Morissette
#44. I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"
Demetri Martin
#45. I want to climb on top and lace my fingers right down into the marrow of your bones and cast off and fly. I want to sail you like a kite in the sky. I want you holding on to me for dear life.
Joanna Bourne
#46. I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
Maika Monroe
#47. I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
Maika Monroe
#48. Don't be like the kite that is guided by the air, instead be the air that guides the kite
Melanie West
#49. A life without a vision is like a kite let loose; it is directed by the forces that be, never giving even the slightest of resistance to life's pressures, eventually ending up far away from home (that comfortable place).
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#50. 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
#51. A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
Damien Rice
#52. I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
Vanessa Hudgens
#53. He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.
Khaled Hosseini
#54. You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Alan Cohen
#55. Her mighty eyebrow rose like a kite catching the wind, flock of geese fleeing a shotgun blast, excursion balloon departing carnival grounds.
Dennis Vickers
#56. I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
Bertrand Piccard
#58. You think so logically ... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically ... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth ...
John Geddes
#59. When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. Karou loved Zuzana for her willingness to play out such silliness on a long kite string.
Laini Taylor
#62. My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
Jeff Bridges
#63. I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.
Tommy Cooper
#64. Its build quality is superb, given that I am a novice to it 6 months ago and being heavy handed it stands up very well. I have trouble thinking of something I enjoy more than setting off and popping the kite and screaming downwind!
Steve Robson
#65. We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.
Bill Gates
#66. A stunt kite writes on the blue with its pink tail.
David Mitchell
#67. But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.
Ruta Sepetys
#68. You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.
Augusten Burroughs
#69. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
Francis Quarles
#70. For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
Marc Forster
#71. Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.
Jan Carlzon
#72. After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That's fine for Carter, but I have standards.
Rick Riordan
#73. Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight!
Kate Bush
#74. The leash snaps loose and trails after the little white dog like a kite streamer; then the knot closes, sealing shut. In seconds, an instant, there's no dog, no leash. No sound in the air.
Then Marcus says, 'The tree just ate the dead dog.'
'Yes,' says Jose. 'So it seems.
Veronica Rossi
#75. Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.
Beth Hoffman
#76. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cute the opponents. Good luck.
Khaled Hosseini
#77. Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.
Wu Guanzhong
#78. I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I don't know why, that's what they're supposed to do. Now if he had had a chair on the other end of that string, I would have been impressed.
Mitch Hedberg
#79. The Kite Charm
For A Life Filled with High-Flying Fun, Play with the Wonder of A Child
Viola Shipman
#80. Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?
Philip Jose Farmer
#81. Apollo nodded and Dionysus bowed to the room, sweeping his arms out to the sides with a flourish. And then he was gone.
I shook my head. "Okay. Who else thinks he was high as a kite?"
Hands went up across the room and I grinned.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#82. You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind."
That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime.
Tom Robbins
#83. The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?
Mooji
#85. I know he didn't mean to be popular
to have everyone string along behind him like the tail of a kite.
Jodi Picoult
#86. A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.
Simon Napier-Bell
#87. When the kite was finished, it refused to fly and kept slamming into the ground as if it wanted to destroy itself, and finally it threw itself in the march. Sophia put it outside Grandmother's door and went away.
Tove Jansson
#88. You can't tell how high a kite can fly without being willing to let all the string out.
Ken Liu
#89. The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
Khaled Hosseini
#90. When the wind is against you, like a kite, have your chord of faith rooted and you would fly highest ever.
Vikrmn
#91. Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.
Jenna Alatari
#92. But you're a naughty girl. Last holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge box, and the holidays before that you let the boat drag my fish-line down when I'd set you to watch it, and you pushed your head through my kite, all for nothing.
George Eliot
#93. Her lips remind me of kite strings and I find myself thinking about panda bears. Panda bears do not fly kites, I tell myself.
'I thought you were dead,' she says.
Maybe if you taped a kite to a panda paw and scared the panda so that it started running, the kite might start to lift off.
Michael Ian Black
#94. I was a kite miles out to sea. I was soaring without a string.
Mark Schreiber
#95. I'm sure that's just what Mr. Worthington was thinking as Luther Kite butchered him. 'Boy, I'm glad I have this faith.'"
Blake Crouch
#97. My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.
Kurt Vonnegut
#99. Kite spends three minutes trying to calm me down - 'Dutch! Dutch!' - and then just hugs me with his huge arms, so I am completely wrapped up, and inside him, like an owl inside a hollow tree. This is my most enjoyable crying ever - if all crying were this pleasant, I would do it more often.
Caitlin Moran
#100. Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.
Jeff Buckley
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