High Altitude Flight

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

“How tall the buildings were as I began
To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“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)