A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is. —Simon Napier-...
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In summertime he joined his friends in fishing in the local ponds, flying kites (many years later, local residents would recall that when on windless days many of his friends quickly grew discouraged, Cung would still try to keep his kite in the air), and climbing the many hills in the ...
Science quotes on: | Eagle (20) | Proverb (29) | Say (989) | Wing (79) | Wren (3) As we were flying over the Mozambique Channel, which separates the island of Madagascar from the continent of Africa, we could clearly see the transverse sand bars at its bottom. It was just like...
Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills. — Pancho Barnes 23 The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche 267 Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight! — Kate Bush 53 Science flies you ...
However, the book also centers on the themes of guilt, friendship, and forgiveness. Hosseini was inspired to write the novel after learning, through a news report, that the Taliban had banned kite flying inAfghanistan. He had grown up with the sport while living in Afghanistan and felt that...
98. “Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.”― Jenna Alatari 99. “Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.”― Chris Pine 100. “Dating is really hard be...
“When you are flying the kite, it feels very far away, but there will always be the string connected to it, so you don’t feel too bad about it.” –Shan Cai “I will follow you wherever you go. Even in hell I would still follow you. In my eyes there was only you.” –Ming...
Kite E’re this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave’s offal. Hamlet Lapwing For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs Close by the ground, to hear our conference. Much Ado About Nothing Lark Haply I think on thee, and then my state, ...
The legacy of United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is still alive even after centuries of his death. When you think of Benjamin Franklin an image of him flying a kite might pop up in your mind. Franklin’s famous kite experiment and observations on the nature of electricity brought...