Aviation Quotes

307 quotes by 184 authors

The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul. — Walter Alexander Raleigh
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. — Plautus
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. — Thomas Pynchon
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
I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God. — Abraham Lincoln
Fly and you will catch the swallow. — James Howell
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
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
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
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into… — Beryl Markham
I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it. — John Glenn
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
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
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
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it… — Seneca the Younger
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
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
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
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere. — Paul MacCready

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