Air Quotes

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it. (Boris Yeltsin)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. View quote
George Santayana
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. View quote
Robert Orben
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. View quote
O. Henry
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? View quote
George Wallace
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. View quote
Toni Morrison
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. View quote
Frank Zappa
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. View quote
George Soros
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. View quote
Erwin Rommel
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. View quote
Alexander Pope
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. View quote
Margaret Mead
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. (Ambrose Bierce)
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. View quote
Rita Rudner
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