Aviation Quotes

307 Aviation quotes by 184 unique authors

I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. — Robert Six
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Dad, I left my heart up there. — Francis Gary Powers
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off… — Jacqueline Cochran
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake." — Chuck Yeager
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. .… — Isak Dinesen
There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast! — Roscoe Turner
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I… — Hanna Reitsch
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling… — Harriet Quimby
I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and… — Richard Bach
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

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