Top 136 Kite Quotes & Sayings

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

I've never flown a kite.

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.

I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail. Then they get caught in a tree; you climb up and bring them down, and untangle the string; you run to get them aloft again. Finally, the kite is airborne, and it flies higher and higher, as you let out more string, until it's so high in the sky, it looks like a bird. And if the string snaps, and you've done your job right, the kite will continue to soar in the wind, all by itself.

When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.

I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.

I wish my name was Tom Kite.

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

One book that I just think is absolutely beautiful is 'The Kite Runner.' I'd recommend that one to any and everyone.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.

I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].

I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.

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.

In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women. At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.