Aviation Quotes - Page 5

• A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Sky, Water

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• When asked by someone how much money flying takes:
  Why, all of it!

  Gordon Baxter

  Funny, Flying

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• In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Flying, Able

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• This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your airplane and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy and make some more. Work harder. Pay more attention. Do better preflights.

  Stephen Coonts

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Intruders". Book by Stephen Coonts, 1994.

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• Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.

  Michael Parfit

  Thinking, Magic, Flight

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• Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Airplane, Wings, Ideas

  Wolfgang Langewiesche (1994). “Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition”, McGraw-Hill

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• Flying is done largely with the imagination.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Imagination, Flying, Done

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• The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Men, Air

  Samuel Johnson (1940). “The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings”

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• There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

  Wendell Willkie

  Airplane, Flying, World

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• Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Religious, Sea, Giving

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• For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.

  Louis Bleriot

  Beautiful, Dream, Heart

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

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  Aesop

  Being Yourself, Bird, Fables

  "The Jay and the Peacock". A fable by Aesop,

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• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

  Cecil Beaton

  Islands, Sky, Rose

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• If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Religion, Politics

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• I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

  Bessie Coleman

  Women, School, Flying

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• Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Hard Times, Skills

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• 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

  Inspirational, Travel, Airplane

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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• I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Clouds, Mountain, World

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• 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

  Inspirational, Moving On, Dance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.188, Penguin

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• If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Witty, Revenge

  Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow

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• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Ignorance, Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.521

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• Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

  Thomas Szasz

  Revenge, Mistake, Inspiration

  The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"

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• The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Niece, Animal, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.20, BookBaby

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