Flight of The Phoenix

Famous quotes containing the words flight and/or phoenix:

    What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
    Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

    A victorious tomcat is like a tiger; a plucked phoenix is not worth a chicken.
    Chinese proverb.