Aviation Quotes

307 Aviation quotes by 184 unique authors

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
But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I… — Unknown Author
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky. — Valentina Tereshkova
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How… — Charles Lindbergh
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece… — Unknown Author
We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and… — Cecil Day-Lewis
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this. — Cecil Day-Lewis
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall… — Scott Carpenter
He did it alone. We had a cast of a million. — Neil Armstrong
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come… — Unknown Author
Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory… — Gabriele d'Annunzio
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain… — Richard Bach
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon… — Stephen Coonts
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… — Gordon Cooper
Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing… — James Salter
He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were… — Ernest K. Gann
Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime. — Pancho Barnes
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… — Gordon Cooper
It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on! — Stephen Coonts
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for… — Louise Thaden
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view,… — Richard Bach

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