Aviation Quotes

307 quotes by 216 authors

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
I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can. — Bill Cosby
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to… — Neil H. McElroy
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere. — Arthur Miller
If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? — George Carlin
For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. — Richard M. Nixon
We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be unmanned? There are… — Michael Mullen
We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation… — Deborah Hersman
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare… — Richard Bach
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places… — Wendell Willkie
We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them. — Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton
Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. — Omar N. Bradley
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will… — Seneca the Younger
O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last! — Walt Whitman
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes… — Charles Lindbergh
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth… — Norman Cousins
All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful. — Octave Chanute

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