Browsing Topic Best Airplanes And Flying Quotes

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn’t.

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.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

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.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I’d rather fly.