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Aviation Quotes by Richard Bach
- Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare…
- The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.
- For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
- We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.
- Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
- Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.
- It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine…
- The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine…
- Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without…
- My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
More Aviation Quotes
- 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