Flight Portion

Famous quotes containing the words flight and/or portion:

“When the flight is not high the fall is not heavy.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)