Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.
My first wife didn't like to fly, either.
Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.
You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.
What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!
I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.
For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.
The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
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.
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.
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
Dad, I left my heart up there.
I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and 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.
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