If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me. '
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.
Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.
Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.
I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.
I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs. . . I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.
Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.
You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.
A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it.
Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?. . . wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent,. . . bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.
She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.
Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.
A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.