Aviation Quotes

307 Aviation quotes by 184 unique authors

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen. — Richard Bach
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have… — Frederick Forsyth
Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly. — Paul H. Dunn
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. — George Bernard Shaw
Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very… — Unknown Author
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot… — Ernest Hemingway
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates
I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars. — Jacqueline Cochran
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland
Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I… — Charles Rumney Samson
Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke
There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to… — Alex James
Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live:… — Geoff Dyer
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a… — Ernest K. Gann
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe. — Richard Bach
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me… — Charles Lindbergh
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling. — Richard Branson
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are… — Stephen Coonts
"Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying… — Gavin Lyall
Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water… — Jacqueline Cochran
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight. — Richard Bach
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. — Richard Bach

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