Flight Quotes

927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes… — Samuel Johnson
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. — Samuel Johnson
I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain… — Jay Kay
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. — Helen Keller
I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she… — Gayle King
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how… — Charles Lindbergh
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. — Robert Staughton Lynd
I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and… — Christa McAuliffe
NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am… — Christa McAuliffe
The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying,… — Kylie Minogue
What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone. — Elon Musk
We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only… — Nathan Myhrvold
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. — Simon Newcomb
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not… — Ingrid Newkirk
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. — Carroll O'Connor
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. — Vance Packard
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. — Willard Van Orman Quine
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. — Sally Ride
On both of my flights, everything went very well. — Sally Ride
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. — Sally Ride
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. — Sally Ride
Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole… — Sally Ride
If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine. — Wayne Rooney

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