Dexter Holland Quotes

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.

You've never lived till you've flown!

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring feely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of air.

More than electric lights, more than steam engines, more than telephones, more than automobiles, more even than the printing press, the airplane separated past from future. It had freed mankind from the earth and opened the skies.

Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

When I was on the ice, I felt like a free man. With flying, it's the same thing. When I'm flying by myself on an afternoon, I feel free.

It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.

Mother, I want to see him fly!

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.