Charles Lindbergh Quotes

22 quotes from 17 authors

Charles Lindbergh’s daring flight and complex legacy have inspired countless reflections on courage, innovation, and controversy. This set offers 20 quotations from 17 distinct sources, highlighting the varied ways thinkers have grappled with his impact on aviation and history.

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This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.

Harry Frank Guggenheim

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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

A. Scott Berg

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“Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan “America First.” It”

Timothy Snyder

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In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his…

Peter Diamandis

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“Now, I’m giving up both land and day. Now, I’m heading eastward across two oceans, one of night and one of water.…

Dan Hampton

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“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles…

E. B. White

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“By 1940 most Europeans had made their peace with the seemingly irresistible power of Nazi Germany. Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh…

Timothy Snyder

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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water…

Bill Bryson

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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60…

Bill Bryson

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I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have…

Stan Musial

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Glenn's 1962 Mercury flight was fraught with dramatics, from his 'Zero G and I feel fine!' exultation upon entering orbit to his…

Homer Hickam

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When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel…

Douglas Brinkley

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A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It…

Robert Wise

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“desire to know more. I hope my novel accomplishes this, and I highly recommend the following books that I found very useful:…

Melanie Benjamin

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If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a…

Dave Barry

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For most of the twentieth century, a Minnesotan abroad could fix his home state in the cosmos by invoking for his hosts…

Steve Rushin

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In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in…

Jonathan Eig

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“Maria Orsic, a stunning beauty and an unusual medium was not an obscure personality. She was known to many celebrities of the…

Maximillien de Lafayette

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Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that…

Marion G. Romney

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“Stay Stupid The three dumbest guys I can think of: Charles Lindbergh, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill. Why? Because any smart person who…

Steven Pressfield

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“Why do we like these stories so? Why do we tell them over and over? Why have we made a folk hero…

Joan Didion

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“Not even much survives as memory. Many of the most notable names of the summer—Richard Byrd, Sacco and Vanzetti, Gene Tunney, even…

Bill Bryson

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