„I guess it’s like an airplane: they’re the drag and we’re the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we’re nose-heavy, too much of them and we’re tail-heavy—it’s a matter of balance.“

— Harper Lee

Tags:

„This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„We fly the British flag, not these awful things you are putting on tails.“
— Margaret Thatcher
„She stared at me. "Fly,; ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?""Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.“
— Rick Riordan
„and the sad notes floated out to thepatio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.“
— Stephen King