Pilots Quotes

459 quotes by 352 authors

What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours,… — P. W. Singer
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive… — Jimmy Doolittle
Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first name basis. — Drake
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,… — Charles Lindbergh
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and… — David M. Brown
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying. — Francis Gary Powers
If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down.… — Unknown Author
I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. — Kazimir Malevich
When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The trick is to… — William Hudson O'Hanlon
You learn to know a pilot in a storm. — Seneca the Younger
The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind. — Marilyn Ferguson
Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right… — Billy Graham
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see… — Howard Zinn
The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its… — Unknown Author
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have… — William T. Piper
The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul. — Walter Alexander Raleigh
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
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece… — Unknown Author
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come… — Unknown Author
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for… — Louise Thaden

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