Airplane Quotes

• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Men, Sea, Sky

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• 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

  Men, Flying, Atmosphere

  Quoted in Brugioni, From Balloons to Blackbirds (1993).

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• You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

  Amelia Earhart

  Sky, Tree, Flying

  "How Aerial Photography Changes A Photographer’s Perspective" by Heather Hummel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Glue, Looks, Amphetamines

  "Fictional character: Steve McCroskey". "Airplane!", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Children, Class

  Pluck and Luck (1925)

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• I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Passing, Heard, Overhead

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

  Ray Manzarek

  Grace, Hug, Singing

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• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  Ted Olson

  Taken, Two, Wife

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• When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

  Steven Tyler

  Thinking, Needs, Serious

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• John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

  Conan O'Brien

  Careers, Doe, Sometimes

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• We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

  Bill Maher

  Coward, Want, Building

  "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, www.imdb.com. 1993-2002.

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Past

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

  Ted Olson

  Planes, Being True, Wanted

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• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Country, Children, Real

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• I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

  Chris Hadfield

  Different, Chance

  "Interview with Atlantis astronauts". Interview with John Holliman, www.cnn.com. November 14, 1995.

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• Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

  Adolf Galland

  War, World, Pilots

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• The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  Claude Debussy

  Century

  "Music in History: The Evolution of an Art". Book by Howard Decker McKinney and William Robert Anderson, 1957.

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• As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Good Morning, Travel, Taken

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

  Bill Nye

  Kids, Moon, Space

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• Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

  Robert Stack

  Ears, Fingers, Knows

  "Fictional character: Captain Rex Kramer". "Airplane!", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

  Hugh Shelton

  Men, Perfectly Good, Thrill

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "The Larry King Live Show", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

  Dabney Coleman

  New York, School, Night

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• Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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