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Aviation Quotes by Gordon Cooper
- Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be…
- I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its…
- I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit…
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- Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. — Neil Armstrong
- Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long… — Douglas Adams
- More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton
- In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley
- If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. — Mel Brooks
- When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land,… — Kalpana Chawla
- I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always… — Michael P. Anderson
- To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. — Otto Lilienthal
- My first wife didn't like to fly, either. — Gordon Baxter
- The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times… — Benny Hill
- The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. — Jonathan Swift
- Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be. — Will Durant