Quotes About Birds Soaring

#1. The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who ... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space ... on the infinite highway of the air.

Wilbur Wright

#2. Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it

Friedrich Ruckert

#3. I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles.

Laurel Burch

#4. Outside, gray clouds stretched to infinity. Were my parents and Mikey out there somewhere? I imagined them soaring like birds through the heavens, and wondered how, in a sky so endless, could there be no room for me?

Karen Amanda Hooper

#5. I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.

Lindy Booth

#6. I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.

Janet Turpin Myers

#7. Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

Amy Chua

#8. Birds are everywhere in our literature, a part, it seems, of our collective poetic imagination. If writing a beautiful line of poetry fills a poet's heart with joy, imagine how that same poet's soul must take flight at the sight of swallows soaring through the evening sky!

Lynn Thomson

#9. And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them to enjoy... But in the sky they are truly what a bird is meant to be. So it is with the human heart.

Aleksandra Layland

#10. How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming?

Jay Leno

#11. Henry went down on one knee. 'Like King Arthur's knights,' Mr. Fogarty had told him, but he didn't feel much like a knight. In fact he felt like a twit.

Herbie Brennan

#12. Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.

Rick Warren

#13. It is far easier to launch oneself from a high place in the hope of sprouting wings, than it is to write a book. Yet once you've mastered it, you will be soaring higher than the birds.

Harrison Davies

#14. What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Jane Austen

#15. The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#16. So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it.

Tommy Lee

#17. Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.'
'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my voice doesn't change the truth.

Eloisa James

#18. It's been said that success doesn't lead to happiness; happiness creates success.

Carmine Gallo

#19. Who is Mrs. Ford?" asked Una wonderingly. "Oh,

L.M. Montgomery

#20. Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.

Ivan Pavlov

#21. You can expect what you inspect.

W. Edwards Deming

#22. Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

#23. Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

Fiona Apple

#24. Happiness is a moral obligation.

Dennis Prager

#25. The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

Karen Kingsbury

#26. It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

Jane Monheit