„There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.“

— Terry Pratchett

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„To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.“
— Mary Oliver
„I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.“
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
„Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.“
— Harper Lee
„When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean.“
— William Faulkner