Quotes of Soaring - somelinesforyou

“ I guess that's the story of flight in the 20th century: from the beginning, the very first flights at Kitty Hawk to the various, very furthest and fastest flights that man has ever made. ”

- Neil Armstrong

“ On both of my flights, everything went very well. ”

- Sally Ride

“ Rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C. ”

- Michael Walsh

“ Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ”

- Sara Teasdale

“ Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. ”

- Daniel Bell

“ We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the up soaring tree in the full vigor of its sap. ”

- Sylvia Pankhurst

“ My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery — always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ”

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. ”

- John Dryden

“ As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires. ”

- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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