Flight
The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
The husk or glume of oats.
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Flight Quotations
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
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.
Leonardo da Vinci
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
Orlando Bloom
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
Neil Armstrong
Flight Translations
flight in Danish is flugt
flight in Dutch is vlucht, vliegtocht
flight in French is fuite, vol, essor
flight in German is Flucht, Flug, Flug
flight in Italian is fuga, evasione, volante
flight in Latin is fuga
flight in Norwegian is flygning, flukt, flytur, svev
flight in Spanish is vuelo, escape
flight in Swedish is flygtur, flykt
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