Turning Flight Stall

Famous quotes containing the words turning, flight and/or stall:

“The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“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)

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
—Jane Harrison (1850–1928)