High Altitude Flight

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

    “I laugh at the lore and pride of man
    At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
    For what are they all, in their high conceit,
    When man in the bush with God may meet?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)

    “When we are high and airy hundreds say
    That if we hold that flight they’ll leave the place,
    While those same hundreds mock another day
    Because we have made our art of common things ...”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)