AVIATION QUOTES ♥
~ The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
~ Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
~ G. K. Chesteron
~ No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.
~ Otto Lilienthal
~ There is an art to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~Douglas Adams
~ 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
~ The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.
~Walter Raleigh
~ 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
~ Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
~Doug Coupland
~ Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
~Amelia Earhart
~ To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.
~Otto Lilienthal
~ I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
~Antoine de St-Exupery
~ Flying can be easy at times, but with the wrong machine or the wrong person at the controls, it is the most difficult thing in the world.
~Paul Gallagher
~ You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
~Amelia Earhart
~ Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
~James Dickey
~ Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
~Titus Maccius Plautus
~ The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.
~Wilbur Wright
~ Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.
~Daniela Pestova
~ Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
~Wilfred Owen
~ The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.
~Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
~ In our dreams we are able to fly ... and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
~Madeleine L'Engle
~ Flying is a lot like playing a musical instrument; you're doing so many things and thinking of so many other things, all at the same time. It becomes a spiritual experience. Something wonderful happens in the pit of your stomach.
~Dusty McTavish
~ Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
~Mary Kay Ash
~ Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
~Pappy Boyington
~ Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
~Henry David Thoreau
~ I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
~Adolf Galland
~ I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
~Billy Bob Thornton
~ I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
~Bill Mahera
~ Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~Douglas Adams
~ Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
~ The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small
~William Langewiesche
~ Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
~Proverb
