Airplane Quotes

502 quotes by 417 authors

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley
I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate… — Gordon Bethune
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know. — Barbara Bush
Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at… — Nolan Bushnell
I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be… — Michael P. Anderson
Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get… — Charles Schumer
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it… — Wernher von Braun
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. — George Cayley
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but… — Octave Chanute
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was… — Jacques Charles
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. — Otto Lilienthal
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put… — Ernest K. Gann
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive.… — Isaac Asimov
Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to… — Arthur P. Warner
I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff from north to… — Louis Bleriot
That's the best way to cross the Atlantic. — Arthur Whitten Brown
These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of… — Charles Lindbergh
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors… — Erich Warsitz
She flew like a bird, only faster. — Alvin M. Johnston

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