I heard this quote in a movie about a 1950s game show scandal. The scandal was about a game show that gave a contestant the answers to the questions on the show. The people involved had to go and testiy before congress. This scandal changed the way game shows are done. When the person involved in the scandal testifed before congress he quoted "I have flown too high on borrowed wings" I am trying to find out the full quote and who originally wrote the quote.
2006-07-28 05:15:59 · 4 answers · asked by aaadover 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
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2006-07-28 05:19:48 · answer #1 · answered by Pez 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Van Doren: I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last year. The past doesn't change for anyone. But at least I can learn from the past.
I've learned a lot about life. I've learned a lot about myself and about the responsibilities any man has to his fellow man. I've learned a lot about good and evil -- they're not always what they appear to be.
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. I have deceived my friends, and I have millions of them. I lied to the American people. I lied about what I knew and then I lied about what I did not know. In a sense, I was like a child who refuses to admit a fact in the hope that it will go away.
Of course it did not go away. I was scared, scared to death. I had no solid position, no basis to stand on for my self. There was one way out and that was simply to tell the truth.
It may sound trite to you, but I've found myself again after a number of years. I've been acting a role, maybe all my life, of thinking that I've done more, accomplished more, produced more than I have. I have had all the breaks. I have stood on the shoulders of life, and I've never gotten down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own.
I have flown too high on borrowed wings. Everything came too easy.
That is why I am here today.
2006-07-28 05:20:31 · answer #2 · answered by sunil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Borrowed Wings
2016-12-15 08:46:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunil has the quote and the context, but Van Doren was college professor. He was making a classical allusion to Icarus. Icarus flies to high on the wings his father made for him. The heat from the sun melts the wax that holds the wings together and Icarus plunges into the ocean and drowns.
2006-07-28 08:01:42 · answer #4 · answered by Rico Toasterman JPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋