Aviation Quotes
307 Aviation quotes by 184 unique authors
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How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
— William Blake
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I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the…
— Tom Stoppard
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I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
— Charles Lindbergh
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My soul is in the sky.
— William Shakespeare
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You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
— Amelia Earhart
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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
— Richard Bach
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Most helmsmen would’ve been satisfied with a pilot’s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a…
— Rick Riordan
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Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels…
— Mark Twain
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What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
— Bertrand Piccard
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If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it.…
— Graham Hawkes
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In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
— Elon Musk
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized…
— Edgar Mitchell
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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
— Tom Stoppard
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The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies…
— Anthony Albanese
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When I'm up in the air, it's like I'm closer to heaven; I can't explain the feeling.
— Unknown Author
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There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings.
— Wilbur Wright
Who Wrote These Aviation Quotes
184 authors contributed a total of 307 Aviation Quotes, led by these top contributors: