Meant To Fly Quotes

#1. Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

Robin Wasserman

#2. Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?

Leslye Walton

#3. Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

Andrew Bird

#4. We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy.

Marianne Williamson

#5. Butterflies, butterflies
They were meant to fly
You and i, you and i
We were colours in the sky

The Wanted

#6. If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

Erwin McManus

#7. The sky's not for us.
We weren't meant to fly. All we can do is try not to fall.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#8. Thing is, I am not a big fan of hovers. I firmly believe that if man was meant to fly we'd have feathers, rubber bones, or better insurance coverage.

John Zakour

#9. starships were meant to fly

Nicki Minaj

#10. The figure is not lifting the wands, he is holding them down. The difficulty consists in holding back what is, by nature, meant to fly.

Isabel Radow Kliegman

#11. If sparrows were meant to fly, and hawks to hunt, and greyhounds to run, then a boy such as Diamond was meant to search for his mother. If he didn't go, if he forgot or thought of himself first, then he wouldn't be Diamond.

Alice Hoffman

#12. I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

John Zakour

#13. He had been her sun, the star she circled endlessly. Helpless against the gravity she'd been unable to fight. She'd flown too close and melted her wings made of wax. She'd fallen. Maybe she'd never been meant to fly.

Megan Hart

#14. It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

Sarah Kay

#15. Then right before my eyes, she flew. She actually flew like a bird. No, she flew as a young girl might fly, or a woman or a man, if people were meant to fly. She soared through the air. And that changed the course of my life forever.

James Patterson

#16. Right at the beginning, before the pianist could get her wheels up and fly into that storm, she was hit with a con brio, which I figured meant she had to play either with brightness, with coldness, or with cheese.

Richard Bach

#17. It's only through facing the truth that you will be able to fulfill your potential and live the life you were meant to live. It's only by jumping that you will be able to fly.

Nancy Levin

#18. I don't mind being a moth. I would probably start eating silk if it meant that I could fly.

Marie Rutkoski

#19. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. - Rumi

Wayne W. Dyer

#20. I imagined the towns were filled with people like me - lonely people who wanted to fly away, who wanted more from life than a dreary existence of one-stop shopping, but either didn't know what that meant, or didn't have the guts to go out and find it.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#21. You can learn anything when you have to learn it. You could learn how to fly if it meant you would live another day.

Yaa Gyasi

#22. If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Robert A. Heinlein

#23. Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected.

Jarod Kintz

#24. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Break the Shell": "Child, it's time to break the shell Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.

India.Arie

#26. I'd worry about your chaperone. She's trapped, like a spider caught in a web."
"Spiders make webs," I said. "They don't get caught in them."
"I meant a fly," Stew growled.
"How in the world would a spider get caught in a fly?

Lemony Snicket

#27. In our dreams we are able to fly ... and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

Madeleine L'Engle

#28. I was shrewd like mauma. Even at ten I knew this story about people flying was pure malarkey. We weren't some special people who lost our magic. We were slave people, and we weren't going anywhere. It was later I saw what she meant. We could fly all right, but it wasn't any magic to it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#29. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Rumi

#30. In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

J.M. Barrie

#31. Kindness is a magical spell - performed by enlightened beings - meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom - I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity.

Roberta Pearce