Quotes About Soaring High

#1. Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Color
Wear it
Like a banner
For the proud
Not like a shroud.
Wear it
Like a song
Soaring high
Not moan or cry.

Langston Hughes

#3. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They

John Connolly

#4. A large bird, a buzzard perhaps, was circling on high on a current of air, a tiny, soaring point of black, looking for food, of course, as all of us did, in one way or another.

Alexander McCall Smith

#5. You were never good at scent, I suppose.
I decreased,
weakened and sensitive to minor comments.

Farrah Field

#6. I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.

Phoebe Philo

#7. Glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call home.

Khaled Hosseini

#8. A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

John Milton

#9. Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

LeCrae

#10. The secret to life is to be a balloon
And fly.
Fly very high
Out of the range of needles and pins
Out of the range of BB guns rifles
FLY
Fly very very high, my Friends
And never stop soaring

Jose N. Harris

#11. Just because an old fountain gives no more water, it cannot be despised because with the water it provided once, many trees grew up, many thirsty has quenched their thirsts!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

Dogen

#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. Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
The more I give the winds my pinions free,
Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

Giordano Bruno

#15. I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive. The surprise is how good the wind feels on my face as I fall. And the other surprise is that I ever rise at all

Annie Dillard

#16. An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

James Hogg

#17. Haunt an old house.
Ask for a treat.
Laugh like a witch.
Lick something sweet.
Offer a trick.
Wander a maze.
Echo a boo.
Exclaim the phrase
Normal's unnatural on Halloween!

Richelle E. Goodrich