Top 33 Kite Quotes

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

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.

I don’t see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite’s dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Wind energy threatens golden eagles, bald eagles, burrowing owls, red-tailed hawks, Swainson’s hawks, American kestrels, white-tailed kites, peregrine falcons, and prairie falcons, among many others.

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.

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.

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 experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

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

In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I’ve had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote ‘The Kite Runner.’ I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

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’m working on a movie called ‘Labor Day’ with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I’m excited to see what happens.

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

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

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go ‘weeeeeee’, then she reels me back in.

The track ‘Fire’ is quite different from the other songs in ‘Kites.’

I wanted to really just understand… how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time – boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do – how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

I’ve never flown a kite.

I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It’s what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.

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

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing – I think it would give me that extra confidence.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

I’ve been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I’ve just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

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.

When I went to Kabul – weeks after I finished ‘The Kite Runner’ – I met a lot of people from all walks of life: men, women, children, people from ministries, hotel doormen, shopkeepers. And I learned from them what daily life was like when the rockets were flying overhead.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

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