Aviation Quotes

307 quotes by 184 authors

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine… — Richard Bach
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded… — Charles Lindbergh
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland
The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we… — Arthur David Beaty
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. — James Dickey
How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There… — Robert H. Goddard
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although… — Amy Johnson
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the… — Christian Morgenstern
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. — Unknown Author
And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful… — James Irwin
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from… — Henri Mignet
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of… — Igor Sikorsky
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that… — Eugene Ionesco
Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills. — Pancho Barnes
They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing. — Angelina Jolie
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. — Stephen Coonts
Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life. — Stephen Coonts

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