Air Quote by Red Buttons

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

— Wilbur Wright

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane…

— David Letterman

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly…

— Carl Sandburg

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

— Charles Kettering

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

— Dave Barry

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

— Dorothea Brande

“On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air,…

— Lawrence Lessig

More than 120 years ago, the Wright brothers pioneered their aviation work and built the world's first airplane in Dayton. I'm proud to support…

— Jon Husted

The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

— Edward R. Murrow

“Logically, he understood air travel was completely possible. Emotionally, he found the idea of an enormous, tremendously heavy metal object filled with people propelling…

— Marshall Thornton

“This passenger was wondering why he had stolen a big grey suitcase on four wheels. Was it because he could and because the owner…

— Jonas Jonasson

“so your uncle tells your brother, “There’s more chairs in the shed.” And your brother says, under his breath so almost no one can…

— Hosho McCreesh