PETER: You just think lovely wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter Pan, Act 1 (1904, pub. 1928)
(Source)
In Barrie's novelization, Peter and Wendy, ch. 3 "Come Away, Come Away!" (1911), Peter uses the same words.
Quotations about:
flying
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ….
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one’s back they are a heavy weight.
[Крылья — свобода, только когда раскрыты в полёте, за спиной они — тяжесть.]
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) Russian poet
Notebook 1 (1921)
(Source)
Literally "Wings -- freedom, only when opened in flight, behind their backs -- heavy."
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1960-02), “Air Travel Is Definitely Not for Me,” McCall’s Magazine, Vol. 87, No. 6
(Source)
Collected as "Go, Josephine in Your Flying Machine," in The Snake Has All the Lines (1960).
“Why can’t you fly now, mother?”
“Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”
“Why do they forget the way?”
“Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 17 “When Wendy Grew Up” [Jane to Wendy] (1911)
In his 1908 sequel play, When Wendy Grew Up, An Afterthought (some which was eventually folded into the main play (1904, published 1928) in Act 5, though not these lines), this is rendered:JANE: Why can't you fly now, Mother?
WENDY: Because I'm grown up, sweetheart; when people grow up they forget the way.
JANE: Why do they forget the way?
WENDY: Because they are no longer young and innocent. It is only the young and innocent that can fly.
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) American astronaut, aviator, educator
(Attributed)
On walking on the moon. In F. French, C. Burgess, In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)
