Aviation Quotes · Page 16

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence…

— Sam Hughes

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

— Arthur C. Clarke

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above…

— John Milton

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful…

— Bernard DeVoto

It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit…

— Ernest K. Gann

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.

— Hermann Goring

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different.…

— Tom Stoppard

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to…

— Susan Orlean

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when…

— Thucydides

We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.

— Anonymous

It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

— Brian R. Norris

Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means…

— Otto Lilienthal

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it…

— Seneca the Younger

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

— Martin Caidin

If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

— Elton Joe Kendall

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known…

— Linda Finch

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

— Bruce Dickinson

I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

. . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a…

— James McCudden

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.…

— Jacques Charles

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II.…

— Eileen Collins

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

— Alan Jay Lerner

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

— Bruce Dickinson

I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

— Frank Lorenzo

After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch…

— Charles Lindbergh