Achievement Quote by Bill Bryson

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

— Tim O'Reilly

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people…

— Josephine Baker

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

— Dan Hampton

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much…

— Jim Lovell

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

— John Guare

Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire ...

— Robert Wyland

Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at…

— Bill Bryson

We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to…

— Warren MacKenzie

I read a book called 'Transatlantic', which is a history of the great shipping lines. Also, of course, I had read about the Titanic…

— Erik Larson

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris,…

— Burt Rutan

“In June of 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She made that flight with Wilmer Shultz and Louis…

— Anna C. Barnett

“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at…

— Bill Bryson