Hot Air Balloons

Famous quotes containing the words hot, air and/or balloons:

    “The fact that the mental health establishment has equated separation with health, equated women’s morality with soft-heartedness, and placed mothers on the psychological hot seat has taken a toll on modern mothers.”
    —Ron Taffel (20th century)

    “Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heaven.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Canaries in the morning, orchestras
    In the afternoon, balloons at night. That is
    A difference, at least from nightingales,
    Jehovah and the great sea-worm.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)