High Altitude Flight

Famous quotes containing the words high, altitude and/or flight:

    “There, do not start,
    child, nor toss about;
    only calm and high pride
    can help your hurt:
    fate tries all alike.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
    —Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)