Brave Quote by Roald Dahl

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a…

— Dick Rutan

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

— George McGovern

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

— Scilla Elworthy

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but…

— Tom Stoppard

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a…

— Rick Mercer

I was in a plane that lost an engine flying from Dallas to England. It happened over the Newfoundland Sea, and it was dark,…

— Amanda Shires

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

— Andre Aciman

I learned to assemble a rifle in the dark and was trained as a sniper so that I could hit the center of the…

— Ruth Westheimer

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth,…

— Randall Jarrell

I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.

— Mark Helprin

I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made…

— John Trevor Godfrey

I ran through a field of blades and broken glass. I watched the sun explode and the sky turn to a black and red…

— Naquitta Faith