Top 100 Quotes About Balloons In The Sky
#1. Apologies have nothing to do with you. They are balloons in the sky. They may never land.
Anonymous
#2. I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#3. Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
William Pene Du Bois
#4. The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
Arthur Miller
#5. The mountains were breathtakingly beautiful. It was so serene and tranquil. The rising sun with other balloons around it painted the sky with a silhouette that was major eye candy.
Jenna Roads
#6. My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.
Ian Kelsey
#7. If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.
Robert Krulwich
#8. I wish I had money now. If only I'd saved my allowance growing up, instead of squandering it on balls, balloons, booze, and floozies.
Jarod Kintz
#9. Alexis, I would have sent balloons but we agreed ... no strings. Adam
Jenni Moen
#10. Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard Branson
#11. There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
Terry Pratchett
#12. What, no balloons?' Billi asked drily.
'You want balloons, join the circus.
Sarwat Chadda
#13. She tells me about dreams. She says my dreams are helium and balloons, and I've made the mistake of letting go a few to many times, but I still got this one. Tied around my finger like a wedding ring because even though I don't believe in marriages, I'm gonna bring this one home.
Shane Koyczan
#14. They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.
Shane Jones
#15. Balloons, all blown up. How, where and why he got
Richard Price
#16. She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead, he seemed to land heavily within her, like a black stone falling.
Catherynne M Valente
#17. We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.
David Lereah
#18. I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.
James Van Allen
#19. Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.
Erik Qualman
#20. It's easy to feel like the bunny rabbi frozen in terror. And it's easy to feel like one of the fire balloons, at the whim of the wind, either rising up out of sight or burning down. Blow one direction or another.
Ava Dellaira
#21. But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?
John Green
#22. Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.
Michael Lewis
#24. I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing.
Carlos Alazraqui
#25. I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.
Colson Whitehead
#26. There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#27. In the 1770s, when he was in Paris, Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight of one of the first hot-air balloons. As the balloon soared into the air, someone asked Franklin: "What good is it?" Franklin responded: "What good is a new-born baby?
Benjamin Franklin
#28. Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
Elizabeth Wein
#29. Remember the day when our heads,
immersed in freedom and love,
like colorful balloons -
upwards to the clouds, constant we floated.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#30. Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons, too.
Terry Pratchett
#31. The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.
Vera Brittain
#32. I want you to send a hundred red balloons up into the sky every Fourth of July and make everyone who sees them wonder what the story behind them is all about. Let me live on inside of a made up story, Callum Andrew
Emalynne Wilder
#33. She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.
John Green
#34. The unpainted walls of the long rectangular room were soaked with the smell of greasy chicken and warm, headless beer. The brown and pink faces floated above the trails of used cigarette smoke like bodiless carnival balloons.
Gloria Naylor
#35. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. ( ... ) But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it.
John Green
#36. An inflated balloon
impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.
Dianne Feinstein
#37. The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
Richard Branson
#38. Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today?
Andrea Kayne Kaufman
#39. There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
Herman Melville
#40. Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons.
Carew Papritz
#41. A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?
Bill Bailey
#42. The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
Michael Hastings
#43. I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.
Richard Branson
#44. Barrage balloons dotted the sky like blind whales bobbing around in the wrong element.
Kate Atkinson
#45. Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.
H.L. Mencken
#46. I don't remember how big the balloons were. I was a kid then. Everything looks bigger when you're a kid.
Harlan Coben
#47. Do as gas balloons do, while in depression; inhale helium of happiness and fly high.
Vikrmn
#48. I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"
Mitch Hedberg
#49. As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
Sam Kean
#50. With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.
Lisa Loeb
#51. All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#52. Human kind isn't meant to be free; helium balloons are free. - from Monsters of the Apocalypse
Jordan Rawlins
#53. Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.
William Cranch Bond
#54. I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple
#55. Graduation breathes on us, redneck lady," he said. "Now is the time to make sure we have the strings to all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.
Maggie Stiefvater
#56. The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.
Tom Wujec
#57. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has new balloons this year including the Pillsbury Doughboy balloon and the first openly gay balloon. Also the Thomas Tank Engine balloon, and they even have the Ebola nurse balloon.
David Letterman
#58. Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Where 99 red balloons go by
Nena
#59. AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!" which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.
Terry Pratchett
#60. i am constantly telling him that i'm not sure the laws of sex and the city apply when there's no sex and there's no city, but then he looks at me like i'm throwing spiked darts at the heart-shaped helium balloons that populate his mind, so i let it go
David Levithan
#61. My ambition with connectivity is not to fly balloons in the national airspace of other countries, but my dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions.
Satya Nadella
#62. When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.
Jane McGonigal
#63. Hot oil! We need hot oil! ... Forget the water balloons!
Gary Larson
#64. On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.
Carolyn Mackler
#65. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.
Sylvia Plath
#66. A man's body is like a circus. You can swing off his trapeze arms, lay your head on thighs like fresh-blown balloons while his cock performs tricks, soft to hard, a burst like a cannon if you treat him right.
Bojan Veljanov
#67. Somehow, I manage to open the door. And smile at the enormous bunch of balloons Erin has for me. And act like my normal self (or at least what I think my normal self acts like).
Susane Colasanti
#68. So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.
Kevin McDonald
#69. You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.
Sean Covey
#70. His polish-black hair was so silky that my first impulse was to stroke it. That's what beauty does to us. Our first thought is that of the child. Touch it. Make it mine. But the child grows up and learns what happens when you reach for those bright balloons bursting with colour.
Bonnie Hearn Hill
#71. As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they did before - hovering, annoyed, frustrated, contained by the ceiling and disappointed by the limits of life.
Shannon Mullen
#72. I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.
Jim McDermott
#73. President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.
Paula Poundstone
#74. I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around.
Neil Gaiman
#75. One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.
Leon Bridges
#76. Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
Rachel Platten
#77. Upon the occasion of history's first manned flight - in the 1780's aboard the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloons - someone asked Franklin what use he saw in such frivolity. "What use," he replied, "is a newborn baby?
Mary Roach
#78. 'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
The Weeknd
#79. That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
Al McGuire
#80. I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up*
Thom Yorke
#81. Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons,
Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons.
I'm like them shorties that could kill for goons,
They started hustlin' in April to cop wheels in June.
Elzhi
#82. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#83. I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.
Steve Fossett
#84. She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.
Brandon Mull
#87. Thighs spread out on the seat like water balloons, frying eggs, spilled syrup.
Dennis Vickers
#88. We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.
Rhys Bowen
#89. Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick
Steven Wright
#90. You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be
Vicki Alayne Bradley
#92. Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley.
Peter Menzel
#93. What became of all those lost balloons: they were the loves that slipped out of our fists; the blank eyes that rose in every night sky.
Jodi Picoult
#94. Perhaps it is his goofy laugh and silly grin that made people underestimate him; certainly his playfulness contributed to that perception. At their wedding reception, Jeff [Bezos] and MacKenzie provided an outdoor adult play area that included water balloons.
Richard L. Brandt
#95. In depression, buy gas balloons; they would make you feel lighter.
Vikrmn
#96. I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.
Brad Alan Lewis
#97. They were very scary times [1982], Midge Ure dancing with tears in his eyes. That German girl with the hairy arm pits singing about 99 red balloons.
Kate Harrison
#98. But the true voyagers are only those who leave
Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,
They never turn aside from their fatality
And without knowing why they always say: Let's go!
Charles Baudelaire
#99. As the clinic's janitors, it had been a simple matter for Merv and Scant to plant the acid balloons the previous evening. Of
Eoin Colfer
#100. And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.
Seth Godin
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