Accelerated Quote by John Conroe

“Yes, Minister, it turns out that there was a mysterious force that caused that plane to crash. We call it gravity.”

— Daniel O'Malley

“When the small plane went airborne without the aid of a single propeller, it made the first American rocket-powered airplane flight.”

— Nathalia Holt

“When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it …”

— Henry Ford

“It's the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly…

— Charles Lindbergh

“I loved them. True, I was scared to death getting on the damn thing. But once the pilot took off and we were in…

— Chris Kyle

“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms…

— Anne Carson

“One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down.”

— Colum McCann

“Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Flight is just a fall that never reaches the ground.”

— Neil Hilborn

“For better or worse, our lives are accelerating, and the only speed fast enough is instant.”

— Kevin Kelly

“literally rocketing into the sky at a seemingly impossible steep pitch as it activated for the first and only time in its history a…

— Garrett M. Graff

“I'm so happy my son wanted me to jump out of a plane.”

— Nora Roberts