All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage. . . well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.
Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
The never-ending flight Of future days.
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
Flight is intolerable contradiction.
My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.
All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.
And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.
We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.
I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.