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Flew Quotes

Lines about motion, travel, and taking off.

This set of flew quotes captures movement in different forms, from a rushed flight taken straight out of character on a film set to a fascination with the fragile passenger airships of decades past. It pairs well with our Experience collection.

I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite...

Quotes by Woody Harrelson

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

Quotes by William Cowper

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

Quotes by Ulrich Walter

When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,' and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to...

Quotes by Todrick Hall

Back Quotes

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers...

Quotes by Theodore White

I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning...

Quotes by Taylor Spreitler

I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six...

Quotes by Tammy Duckworth

I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

Quotes by Sunita Williams

When I was 17, my mum thought it would be a good idea to compete in a modeling television show. It was hard for me to book jobs in Australia at this time, being that my look was so different....

Quotes by Shanina Shaik

Day Quotes

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

Quotes by Sebastian Thrun

At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore...

Quotes by Sascha Radetsky

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.

Quotes by Sara Gilbert

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

Quotes by Sam Rockwell

Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother...

Quotes by Saffron Aldridge

Experience Quotes

The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.

Quotes by Ron Moody

The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear...

Quotes by Romeo Dallaire

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Roald Dahl

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.

Quotes by Ray Nagin

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

Quotes by Rachael Ray

Good Quotes

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

Quotes by Peter Mullan

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this flew quotes collection about?
It gathers reflections on travel and flight, from a hurried trip taken straight from a film set to a fascination with fragile early passenger airships.
Why do people search for flew quotes?
Travel-themed quotes are popular for captions about trips, transitions, or a fascination with flight and motion in general.
Do these quotes cover real aviation history?
Yes, one references the short-lived era of passenger airships from decades ago, admired for their design despite being frail and short-lived.
Is there a personal, non-technical side too?
Yes, another describes flying while still emotionally caught up in a film role, showing travel can carry personal, not just literal, meaning.
Where can I find related themes?
Our Experience and Day collections complement this page well.

For more on journeys and looking back, browse our Back and Day pages alongside this one.