Present day Quote by Lawrence Goldstone

“Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all…

— Lawrence Goldstone

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.

— Robert Crandall

The Wright brothers committed themselves to do what no one else had ever done before. They took time to do their homework. They were…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

— Herodotus

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before she thought…

— James Carlos Blake

“As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it…

— Herman Melville

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were…

— John Flavel

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

— Wilbur Wright

“There were railroads in the wilderness now; people who used to go overland by carriage or horseback to the River landings for the Memphis…

— William Faulkner

“When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down,…

— Jim Butcher

“British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their…

— Robert Jackson