Top 25 Kite Quotes

In this post, you will find great Kite Quotes from famous people, such as John Petit-Senn, Bertrand Piccard, Winston Churchill, John Muir, Maika Monroe. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

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

John Petit-Senn

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.

Bertrand Piccard

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Winston Churchill

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

John Muir

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.

Maika Monroe

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

Vanessa Hudgens

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

I think we have challenges, but we have so many opportunities to get it right. I like it when we have a little bit of a headwind. The kite actually lifts when you have a headwind and doesn’t when there is lift from the back.

Borje Ekholm

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

Alan Cohen

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.

Russell Smith

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.

Michael Shellenberger

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.

Lawrence Hargrave

My hobbies are linked to the way I want to play soccer. I want to do different action things, like kite surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freeriding with skis. I like these sports in my free time and it could be a big link with how I want to play soccer.

Julian Nagelsmann

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

Maika Monroe

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.

Khaled Hosseini

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.

Francis Quarles

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

Lewis Mumford

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.

Payne Stewart

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

Jeff Bridges

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.

Keith Henson

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.

Khaled Hosseini

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.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

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.

Anais Nin

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

Marc Forster