Top 100 Quotes About A Kite
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm.
Bill Bryson
#4. I feel like a tent that wants to be a kite, tugging at my stakes.
Abigail Thomas
#5. 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
#6. A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.
Randall Dale Adams
#8. True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
John Petit-Senn
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. It is time to go. It is time to go. Forget the kite. Make a kite of your own body.
Matthew Neill Null
#13. Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.
Takuboku Ishikawa
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Her mighty eyebrow rose like a kite catching the wind, flock of geese fleeing a shotgun blast, excursion balloon departing carnival grounds.
Dennis Vickers
#22. You think so logically ... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically ... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth ...
John Geddes
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight!
Kate Bush
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I know he didn't mean to be popular
to have everyone string along behind him like the tail of a kite.
Jodi Picoult
#38. 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
#39. You can't tell how high a kite can fly without being willing to let all the string out.
Ken Liu
#40. When the wind is against you, like a kite, have your chord of faith rooted and you would fly highest ever.
Vikrmn
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I was a kite miles out to sea. I was soaring without a string.
Mark Schreiber
#45. Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.
Sherry Thomas
#46. Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her silly for living in the sky, but rather, he marveled at the wondrous life she had created on the outskirts of reality. He knew her love would elevate him to new emotional heights.
Jaeda DeWalt
#47. California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.
S.E. Hinton
#48. Everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.
Carlos Castaneda
#49. Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.
Carl Sandburg
#50. If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
Wu Guanzhong
#51. When people tell me to go fly a kite I tell them to go dig a ditch. They say "why dig a ditch"? I say because I want to be closer to Heaven than you.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#53. Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#54. He held to it in the way of a man who holds the string of a kite that is so high he can't see it anymore, knowing that any moment it may break and the only way he will know it has broken will be by the sudden ripple of the string as it dances slowly groundward.
Steve Erickson
#55. To her it was like being alone in the ocean, holding a kite string in one hand and an anchor chain in the other and finding the balance so she wouldn't sink.
Kate Evangelista
#56. The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.
Coventry Patmore
#57. Hungry for breath
like a kite falling stray,
the wire grows slack
the child within pulls at the empty air.
Jack Campbell
#58. Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!
Rick Riordan
#60. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
Dr. Seuss
#61. I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.
Alexander Graham Bell
#62. I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.
Les Dawson
#63. It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
Jim Moran
#64. Happiness was a little like flying, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out.
Patricia Highsmith
#65. I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.
Florence Welch
#66. Well, chaos was not unfamiliar to him. In daily life, his emotions were chaos. He let himself become a vessel for them, letting feeling roar through him, pulling him around like a kite, boiling him like water in a kettle, dissolving him in a whirl of elements.
Mary Gaitskill
#67. 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
#68. Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
Maika Monroe
#70. 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
#71. Get off, luv, I'm high as a bloody kite. No telling what I'll do.
Jeaniene Frost
#72. Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
John Muir
#73. Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon
John Geddes
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. [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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!
Khaled Hosseini
#82. You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Alan Cohen
#83. 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
#84. Karou loved Zuzana for her willingness to play out such silliness on a long kite string.
Laini Taylor
#85. 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
#86. A stunt kite writes on the blue with its pink tail.
David Mitchell
#87. 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
#88. For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
Marc Forster
#89. You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
Khaled Hosseini
#90. The Kite Charm
For A Life Filled with High-Flying Fun, Play with the Wonder of A Child
Viola Shipman
#91. 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
#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. My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.
Kurt Vonnegut
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.
Sarah Addison Allen
#98. Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite's string that guides you in your flight.
Richard Ronald Allan
#99. Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
Khaled Hosseini
#100. She gave me a dirty look. Then she broke into the bubbly champagne laugh. She turned and ran, limping but steady. She laughed over he shoulder, letting out the line as I held the kite above my head.
"Run with me, Rose," she cried.
Elizabeth Wein
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