Ground Quotes

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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. .… — Isak Dinesen
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
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
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
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
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. — Richard Bach
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… — Richard Bach
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a… — Unknown Author
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated… — Thomas Jefferson
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step… — Thomas Jefferson
I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave… — Frederick Douglass
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But… — Alexander Hamilton
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. — Unknown Author
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death… — Charles Dickens
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and… — Adam Sedgwick
There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple witnesses both on… — Steven M. Greer
I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The unknowns have varied… — George Fawcett
Our spirituality is the ground of our being. — Paul Tillich

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