I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
