Flight Quotes

More die in flight than in battle.

— Selma Lagerlöf

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

— Claudio Magris

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

— John Glenn

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

— Paul Theroux

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

— Anonymous

“Flight from the communal spirit is death!”

— Novalis

I have no misgivings about using a flight computer.

— Victor J. Glover

The only victory over love is flight.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

— Doug Larson

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

— Simon Newcomb

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

— Sergey Biryuzov

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

— Plato

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

— Gus Grissom

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

— Arnold Palmer

I m gonna catch this flight and when I reach my destination. I hope youll be smiling. Longing to see me.

— Freddie Mcgregor

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the…

— Sidney Lanier

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why…

— Sam Ewing

Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious…

— William Blake

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I'm sure there are managers who have had far greater financial success. But my companies such as easyJet have changed the lives…

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is…

— Alan Shepard

Airplane noise continues to impact communities around JFK, specifically those under the typical flight path for an airplane approaching runway 22L/R.

— Tom Suozzi

And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on…

— Al Jarreau

Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of…

— Jimmy Cannon

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength…

— Samuel Johnson

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I…

— Sam Keen

One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract…

— Leroy Chiao

We were trying to do as much science as we could because that was the main purpose of the international space station.…

— Leroy Chiao

Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which…

— Anonymous

In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity,…

— Wernher von Braun

There are so many varieties of films. You've got the jet-lagged films, where you fly to Bulgaria or wherever and get off…

— Lance Henriksen

“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge) Whispering to myself With every step I take, Trying out names, for I know There is…

— Jay Woodman

Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend…

— Simon Jenkins

You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order…

— Gustave Thibon