Pilots Quotes

459 Pilots quotes by 352 unique authors

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
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. — George Bernard Shaw
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to… — Alex James
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe. — Richard Bach
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the… — Unknown Author
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
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater
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
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots... — Carl Jung

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