Flying Quotes
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. - Socrates
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci
My soul is in the sky. - William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Scene I.
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. - Louis Bleriot
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. - Amelia Earhart
More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination. - Wilbur Wright
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. - Alexander Chase
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . . - Antoine de St-Exupery
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. - Nevil Shute
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? - — William Law
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it. - Samuel Butler
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. - Antoine de
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. - Wendell Willkie
We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them. - Lord Swinton
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the ocean of air laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world. - Welch Pogue
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle. - Igor Sikorsky
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - Sir James Matthew Barrie
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. - Eric Hoffer
No bird ever flew nonstop from New York to Tokyo, or raced 15 miles high at triple the speed of sound. But birds do something else. They do not conquer the air; they romance it. - Peter Garrison
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the air to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. - Jean Batten
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven. - Wernher von Braun
Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. - Charles A. Lindbergh
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. - Amelia Earhart
How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. - Charles A. Lindbergh
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. - Orson Welles
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. - Gil Stern
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. - James Dickey
O! for a horse with wings! - William Shakespeare
The butterfly is a flying flower... - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination. - Wilbur Wright
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. - Wendell Willkie
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 to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights.... Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. - William T. Piper
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. - Alexander Chase
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. - Titus Maccius Plautus
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin. - K.O. Eckland
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. - George Winters
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. - Walter Raleigh
Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. – Unknown
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
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 down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite. - Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. - Henry David Thoreau
The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. - Cesar Pelli
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. - Richard Bach
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. - Author Unknown
I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part. - John Wittenborn
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. - Neil McElroy
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. - Leonardo Da Vinci (Thanks, Tommy)
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. - Bill Gates
Given angel's wings, where might you fly?
In what sweet heaven might you find your love?
Unwilling to be bound, where might you move,
Lost between the wonder and the why?...
- Nicholas Gordon
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. - Louis J. Helle
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. - David Letterman
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. - Jean Kerr
I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. - Richard Bach
I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong. - Ogden Nash
If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? - George Carlin
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. - Antonio Porchia
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport.... - Amy Johnson
My soul is in the sky. - William Shakespeare
I always thought that my airplane conveyed a silent sermon. To the earthbound observer, its silhouette was the shape of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. - E.R. Trimble
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. - G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye. - Terry Hanson
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. - Werner von Braun
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. - Mary Kay Ash