WIT AND WISDOM ABOUT KITES

Back in the good old days (well, 1992), the folks at KiteLines published, in novel fashion, T-shirts that you could wear most fashionably to celebrate our novel pastime. On the shirts, there were 14 wonderful quotes about kites, some from kitefliers, some from other sources. You’ll find that many of these quotes are still inspirational.

A one-liner is no joke	Mel Govig	Maryland
The kite is pottery for the wind	Tal Streeter	New Mexico
Kites are only superficially trivial	Valerie Govig	Maryland
The sky is big enough for all of us	Wyatt Brummit	New York
I don’t make kites that don’t fly!	Teizo Hashimoto	Japan
The end of a string is a wonderful thing ...	e. e. cummings	Massachusetts
People who fly kite trains have loco motives	Bill Rutiser	Maryland
The humble two-stick is its own revenge	Maurizio Angeletti	Italy
If you’ve seen one kite out of sight, you’ve seen them all	Bill Bigge	Maryland
We must have a night fly, one of these days	Peter Whitehead	New Zealand
In kitemaking, everything depends on everything	David Pelham	England
In a good year, every kite is destroyed	National Geographic	re Japan
Hold your challenger at bay and keep sending press releases	Will Yolen	Connecticut
That was no crash, that was a premature landing at an unfortunate angle	Charlie Sotich	Illinois