Flight Quotes · Page 24

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

— Amelia Earhart

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.

— Dave Barry

Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.

— Michael Parfit

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

— Boman Irani

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

— Jorge Luis Borges

On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.

— Gene Kranz

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.

— Peter Diamandis

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

— Wayne Rooney

Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can…

— Jim Rohn

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong…

— Charles Lindbergh

“What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm. It means, as its…

— Laurence Gonzales

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile…

— Charles Lindbergh

Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no…

— Robert Browning

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the…

— Carl Jung

I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a…

— Alex Gaskarth

“I look pretty good. More than good, actually, but I’m not a teenager anymore. Caution: Contents may have shifted during flight.”

— Qwen Salsbury

Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar.…

— Brandon Sanderson

I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking…

— Wesley Clark

I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question…

— Charles Lindbergh

The final flight make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more God has…

— Rumi

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this…

— Sloane Crosley

I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be…

— Wernher von Braun

We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately -…

— David Foster Wallace

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

— Alexandre Dumas

“Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.' 'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.”

— Jonathan Carroll

“You always drop by, to en- lighten my mind, when my wings are feeling heavy & i've forgotten how to fly.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

— William C. Bryant

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

— Simon Newcomb

We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

— Chris Mooney

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

— John Glenn

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!

— George Moses Horton

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.

— Louis Bleriot

If it's an international flight, I always like to wear a sheet mask.

— Marisol Nichols

“Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.”

— Bryan Fields

UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.

— Linda M. Godwin

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

— Gary Zukav

“Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.”

— Orville Wright