Flight Instinct Quotes

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Although their maneuverability is limited, blind flies can fly remarkably well.

I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.

Truth is, I have been scared of birds since I was a little girl. I think it's genetic because my mom shares this fear with me.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

I'm constantly running away from everything. I'm running away from things on a daily basis. I run away from relationships. I run away from responsibilities.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

I am always running away from something.

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture.