Flight Quotes

927 Flight quotes by 688 unique authors

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life… — Plato
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But… — Archilochus
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form… — Henry Walter Bates
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. — Simon Newcomb
One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take… — Duane G. Carey
Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico. — Peter Straub
Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot. — Treat Williams
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth… — Kenneth Joseph Arrow
As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all… — Linda M. Godwin
UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago. — Linda M. Godwin
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the… — John Charles Polanyi
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight;… — William Bartram
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing… — Meriwether Lewis
The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that,… — Alan Shepard
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience… — Orville Wright
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point… — Orville Wright
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first… — Orville Wright
Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers. — Dave Reichert
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over… — Donald G. Mitchell
I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force. — Sinbad
I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put… — Alberto Tomba
The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking… — Charles Simonyi
To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and… — Burt Rutan
Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds,… — Jack Kornfield

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