These Balloon quotes will inspire you. A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, and air.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging Balloon quotes, Balloon sayings, and Balloon proverbs.
Best Balloon Quotes
- “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.” ~ William Cranch Bond
- “The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.” ~ Richard Branson
- “There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.” ~ Terry Pratchett
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“We buy balloons, we let them go.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis
- “Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.” ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- “Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.” ~ Alan Ball
- “There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.” ~ Herman Melville , Balloon quotes about life
- “The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.” ~ Jean-Pierre de Caussade
- “The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.” ~ Alberto Santos-Dumont
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“The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there’s a party. Settle down. It’s not a party. It’s just balloons.” ~ Demetri Martin
- “It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Whatever makes your balloon red, Swopes.” ~ Darynda Jones
- “Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” ~ Richard Bach
- “Compliments are the helium that fills everyone’s balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life’s troubles and land safely on the other side.” ~ Bernie Siegel
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“Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.” ~ Demetri Martin
- “What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.” ~ Gene Fowler
- “We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.” ~ Rhys Bowen
- “My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.” ~ Ian Kelsey
- “There’s something in a flying horse,
There’s something in a huge balloon.” ~ William Wordsworth -
“Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind’s will.” ~ Gelett Burgess
- “You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire” ~ Kim Basinger
- “Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” ~ Richard Bach
- “An inflated balloon — impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.” ~ Dianne Feinstein
- “I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I’d walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn’t see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I’d think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.” ~ Nick Burd
- “God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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“Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.” ~ Mark Twain
- “We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.” ~ Karl Hess
- “There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn’t filled with something else important. It’s just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.” ~ Thandie Newton
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“Who knows if the moon’s / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky – filled with pretty people?” ~ e. e. cummings
- “My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids’ parties.” ~ Gary Busey
- “Did I miss?” you asked. “You didn’t exactly miss,” said Pooh, “But you missed the balloon.” “I’m so sorry,” you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Throwing water balloons wakes you up!” ~ Kevin Jonas
- “Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.” ~ Richard Branson
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“Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.” ~ Robyn Hitchcock
- “We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.” ~ David Lereah
- “My grandfather invented the cold air balloon… But it never really took off.” ~ Milton Jones
- “I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I’ll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist” ~ Harvey Pekar
- “All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God’s eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.” ~ John Muir , Balloon quotes love
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“I’ve just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I’ve always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.” ~ Chris Bauer
- “It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived– a hot-air balloon– just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.” ~ Gregory Maguire
- “But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: “Let’s go!” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: “What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man.”” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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“I think it’s a trial balloon to see what happens, and I’m not impressed with it.” ~ Jim McDermott
- “The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.” ~ David Foster Wallace
- “We’re out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.” ~ Ray Davies
- “It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.” ~ Ali Sina
- “I couldn’t pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.” ~ Joe Gold
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“Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.” ~ Shane Jones
- “I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.” ~ Steve Fossett
- “If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?” ~ H. G. Wells
- “I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There’s no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up*” ~ Thom Yorke
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“I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “There’s a joke about the balloon boy who has a balloon mum and a balloon dad and he goes to a balloon school with balloon friends ad a balloon principal. And one day, the balloon boy decides to take a pin to his balloon school, which is, of course, a disaster. And he’s called into the balloon principal’s office, and the balloon principal tells him, ‘You’ve let me down, you’ve let your school down, you’ve let your parents down, you’ve let your friends down. But most importantly you’ve let yourself down’.” ~ Gabrielle Williams
- “Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth’s atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos.” ~ David G. Simons
- “Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I’m not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.” ~ Steve Fossett
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“Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?” ~ Dennis Miller
- “After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “Chicken,’ Josie said. ‘Have you ever been in love?’ Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. ‘Yeah,’ he said. ‘I think so.” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that’s almost never the case. I’m just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.” ~ Stephen Colbert
- “I can’t blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I’ve spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I’ll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.” ~ Colson Whitehead
