"Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting."

"Lest I make the people fly off from that city like a wild dove from its tree, lest I make them fly around like a bird…"

"Of course the vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was s…"

"Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy fi…"

"Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the w…"

"Flying is years and years of utter boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror"

"All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure."

"Restat iter cœlo: cœlo tentabimus ire; Da veniam cœpto, Jupiter alte, meo."

"One way remains—by air: by air a way we'll try; Pardon the bold adventure, Jove most high!"

"I just want to fly: put your arms around me baby, I just want to fly."