Quotes with fly-swat

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  • Toni Morrison If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lauren Bacall Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
    Lauren Bacall
    American actress and singer (1924 - 2014)
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  • Asa Hutchinson In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Robert Southey It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • C. S. Lewis It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
    Source: C.S. Lewis on joy
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Muhammad Ali It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Light gatherer. You fell from a star
    into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
    mirrored in you,
    and now you shine like a snowgirl,
    a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
    you squeal at and fly in.
    Source: The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carmen Marton Oh, there's a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I've seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.
    Carmen Marton
     
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  • George Eliot Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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