Why Walk When You Can Fly Quotes

#1. There are sicknesses that walk in darkness, and there are exterminating angels who fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see but we feel their foorce and sink under their sword.

Jeremy Taylor

#2. Try to avoid falseness and strain. Write what you really know about. Make it new. Don't invent melodrama for the sake of it. Don't try to run, let alone fly, before you can walk with ease.

A.S. Byatt

#3. Only those who are grounded can truly learn;
one has to walk before one can fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Jay-Z

#5. I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. I learned to walk; since then I have let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Thinking of them reminds me of a quote I read recently from the great Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. that says, "If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl." We must encourage those still struggling to keep moving forward.

William Kamkwamba

#8. If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. I said that I'm a fairy ... and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.

Sasha Pivovarova

#10. Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart-then you may become somebody.

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

#11. Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

Neil Diamond

#12. If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl.-Martin Luther King

Chrissie Wellington

#13. A man must walk before he can fly - one cannot fly into flying.

Paris Hilton

#14. Anna never wanted to walk when she could be carried, your mother wanted to walk when she could fly, and you want to run before you can walk.

Lili St. Crow

#15. Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

George Carlin

#16. Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.

Ina May Gaskin

#17. If you can't fly run, if u cant run
then walk, if you can't walk then crawl
but whatever you do keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#18. Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Tommy Douglas

#19. For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. Delta is full of guys who can stay awake for a week and walk a hundred miles and shoot the balls off a tsetse fly, but it's relatively empty of guys who can do all that and then tell you the difference between a Shiite and a trip to the latrine.

Lee Child

#21. Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Saint Francis De Sales

#22. Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.

Louis Agassiz

#23. Shouldn't the preacher who married the couple in the first place have to fly back in on a broomstick for that, too - that moving on? Shouldn't there be some ritual involving a long walk over hot coals while all the guests who'd been at the wedding watched, weeping, throwing stones at your bare

Laura Kasischke

#24. When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

#25. What you do at the pulpit would be considered lunatic behaviour on the street. You can't go around terrorizing people and making them feel small and shitty and then call them evil when they destroy themselves. You will never walk down a street and feel a lightness come over you. You will never fly.

Miriam Toews

#26. The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. Every puddle in the lane is ringed with sipping butterflied that fly up in flutter when you walk past in the late morning on your way to get the mail.

Wendell Berry

#27. In life, we must first learn to crawl, then stand, then walk, then run, and only then, fly. We cannot crawl into flying.

R.v.m.

#28. A Caution to Everybody
consider the Auk.
Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk.
Consider Man, who may well become extinct,
Because he forgot how to walk and learned to fly before he thinked.

Ogden Nash

#29. We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Gloria Gaither

#30. If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.

Aziz Ansari