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  • Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  • The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

    "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.
  • We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.

    Airplane   Flying   Want  
  • I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  • Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

    Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt
  • The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

    Airplane   Sky   Joy  
    Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
  • There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.

    Airplane   Two   Boss  
    Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
  • The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.

    Beautiful   Dream   Heart  
  • I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

    Writing   Wish   Done  
    Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”
  • There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

  • Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

    Airplane   Men   Sea  
    ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”
  • Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

    Travel   Ocean   Airplane  
  • Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

  • The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

    Airplane   Flying   Way  
  • Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

    Funny   Witty   Fear  
    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan
  • Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

  • Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

    Airplane   Men   Flying  
    Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell
  • I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

    Funny   Humorous   Food  
  • A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

    Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”
  • The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

  • The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

  • If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

    Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt
  • I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

    Airplane   Flying   Dying  
    Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
  • I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

    JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”
  • Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

    Airplane   Men   Flying  
    Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”
  • Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

  • I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

  • What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

    William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120
  • Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

    Airplane   Men   Flying  
    Quoted in Brugioni, From Balloons to Blackbirds (1993).
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