History Quotes / Flight

-> ''"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."''

-->-- '''Water Proof Blond''', ''Just Close Your Eyes''

->''They fell over 55 stories before ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} felt her power resurge enough for her to kick in her flight ability. Taking care of the stress it would place on [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'s body, she pulled them into a dive, holding onto her charge, and then arced upward, taking care to remain only around the level of the 40th floor.''

->''Klar Ken stood at the transparent balcony of his home, 72 stories above the ground. A forcefield barrier below each level would catch a falling body. No one could harm himself, or herself, by being thrown out of a window anymore. You could fly with a [=MagPak=] strapped to your back and cut the thing off and maybe avoid the safety tractors. Some had done it. But by and large, if you wanted to suicide, you had to try something else in 2499.\\
Klar Ken, standing there in his brown robe and sandals, needed no [=MagPak=] to fly.''

->''"Good Lord," he breathed. He looked below him. Nothing there. Like a Warner Brothers' cartoon character, standing on nothing without harm. Better not visualize that too much, because they always started to fall when they figured out where they were.\\

He yelled incoherently at the Earth, at all the people in the world, at God, even, if He was listening. And how could He not be?''

->''She kept going up and up and up, feeling like she would never return to the Earth. Already, she was above the roofs of some of the smaller buildings and she was still going strong.\\

After a few moments, Asuka began to soar through the clouds again, and she remained up in the sky for a long, long time.''

->''I rocketed through the air like a human bullet, falling in a parabolic arc to the center of the bay. Unfortunately for me, I didn't know how to swim. With how fast I was going, I was probably going to hit the bottom of the bay and drown in its polluted waters. I closed my eyes, bracing for the inevitable impact...\\

"Holy shit," I muttered. "I can fly."''

->''Within five seconds, she performed her ablutions in the bathroom, did her hair and makeup, zipped on deodorant and a mild perfume, threw on her Supergirl uniform, and was out of the building at super-speed.\\

Supergirl burst out of the ionosphere, vibrating at a certain frequency, still accelerating. An IFF device in her belt identified her to American and Russian radar trackers as the Girl of Steel, not an ICBM. They only registered her for a few seconds, anyway.''

-->-- '''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Small Gods]]'''

-->-- '''Tony Stark''', ''Film/IronMan1'', [[HowDoIShotWeb after getting his flight stablizers to work.]]

->'''Ash:''' Why do we have [[DreamsOfFlying dreams about flying?]]\\

'''Brock:''' Big deal. In some of my dreams, I'm kickin' the Sun in the crotch. Dreams are weird like that, y'know?\\

'''Ash:''' Think about it. Flying dreams. Comicbook/{{Superman}}. Literature/PeterPan. What if it's all an attempt by our brains to remind us how to fly?!\\

-->--''Videogame/PokerNight2''

->"So he pulls up another chair in front of me, sits down, crossing one leg over the other, and said, ‘You seem like a fine young man. Anything you want to ask me, while I'm here?' Oh, man, what I didn't want to ask him! I asked him how it felt to fly, and he smiled and said, ‘Like nothing you'll ever believe. It's my favorite power. If I could, I think I'd be flying just about every minute of the day.'"
-->-- '''ComicBook/JimmyOlsen''', ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour''

->They fell over 55 stories before ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} felt her power resurge enough for her to kick in her flight ability. Taking care of the stress it would place on [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]’s body, she pulled them into a dive, holding onto her charge, and then arced upward, taking care to remain only around the level of the 40th floor.

->Klar Ken stood at the transparent balcony of his home, 72 stories above the ground. A forcefield barrier below each level would catch a falling body. No one could harm himself, or herself, by being thrown out of a window anymore. You could fly with a [=MagPak=] strapped to your back and cut the thing off and maybe avoid the safety tractors. Some had done it. But by and large, if you wanted to suicide, you had to try something else in 2499.\\
Klar Ken, standing there in his brown robe and sandals, needed no [=MagPak=] to fly.

->"Good Lord," he breathed. He looked below him. Nothing there. Like a Warner Brothers' cartoon character, standing on nothing without harm. Better not visualize that too much, because they always started to fall when they figured out where they were.\\

He yelled incoherently at the Earth, at all the people in the world, at God, even, if He was listening. And how could He not be?

->"No. The speed came first. I remember that from when I was little. I didn't fit it at the school in my uncle's village. Some bullies chased me, and I outran them easily. I started to run, a lot. One day I noticed was running faster than a car, and I kept getting faster, and I could jump higher. One time I decided to see how high I could jump, and I just didn't come down."

->She kept going up and up and up, feeling like she would never return to the Earth. Already, she was above the roofs of some of the smaller buildings and she was still going strong.\\

And as if that wasn't shocking enough by itself, she was now floating in midair just outside the hole she'd made in the decrepit tower. Asuka looked down at the street far below, naked disbelief written all over her features. Part of mind dimly worried about people looking up her dress, even though she knew she was far too high up for anyone to see anything.\\

After a few moments, Asuka began to soar through the clouds again, and she remained up in the sky for a long, long time.

->"If you could have one superpower, what would you pick? Everybody chooses flight!"
-->- '''Freddy Freeman''', ''Film/Shazam2019''

->I have to get permission to fly, because if I fly too high someone called "NORAD" gets mad, but if I fly too low stuff starts to ''melt''.

->I rocketed through the air like a human bullet, falling in a parabolic arc to the center of the bay. Unfortunately for me, I didn't know how to swim. With how fast I was going, I was probably going to hit the bottom of the bay and drown in its polluted waters. I closed my eyes, bracing for the inevitable impact...\\

"Holy shit," I muttered. "I can fly."

->Within five seconds, she performed her ablutions in the bathroom, did her hair and makeup, zipped on deodorant and a mild perfume, threw on her Supergirl uniform, and was out of the building at super-speed.\\

Supergirl burst out of the ionosphere, vibrating at a certain frequency, still accelerating. An IFF device in her belt identified her to American and Russian radar trackers as the Girl of Steel, not an ICBM. They only registered her for a few seconds, anyway.

->"To fly! The dream of man and flightless bird alike!"
-->-- '''Colonel Leslie "Hap" Hapablap''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"

->'''Ash:''' Why do we have dreams about flying?\\

-> ''Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.''

-> ''For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.''

-> ''Yeah, I can fly.''
-->-- Tony Stark, ''Film/IronMan1'', [[HowDoIShotWeb after getting his flight stablizers to work.]]

->'''[[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1729438/blue-yonder-chapter-3-page-one/ Jared]]''': ''I never got the phrase "For the birds." Sure, they eat bread, bugs, and the occasional worm, but I still think it's worth it for the view alone.''
-->--'''Webcomic/BlueYonder'''

-->-- '''LeonardoDaVinci'''

-->-- Tony Stark the '''Film/IronMan''', [[HowDoIShootWeb after getting his flight stablizers to work.]]

-->'''[[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1729438/blue-yonder-chapter-3-page-one/ Jared]]''': ''I never got the phrase "For the birds." Sure, they eat bread, bugs, and the occasional worm, but I still think it's worth it for the view alone.''
--->--'''Webcomic/BlueYonder'''

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-> Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

-> For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
-->-- LeonardoDaVinci

-->-- '''[[{{Discworld}} Small Gods]]'''

-->-- {{Leonardo da Vinci}}

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-->-- Leonardo da Vinci