Aviation Quotes
307 quotes by 184 authors
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The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
— Walter Alexander Raleigh
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High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
— Plautus
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
— Thomas Pynchon
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I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"
— William Langewiesche
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I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Fly and you will catch the swallow.
— James Howell
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Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of…
— Guy Murchie
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the…
— Jean Batten
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The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into…
— Beryl Markham
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I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.
— John Glenn
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As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries…
— Rusty Schweickart
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Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be…
— Gordon Cooper
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The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it…
— Seneca the Younger
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In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to…
— Jonathan Alter
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed…
— Charles Kettering
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What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.
— Paul MacCready
Who Wrote These Aviation Quotes
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