Aviation Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Chuck Yeager

  Believe, Airplane, Wings

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• It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Heart, Airplane

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• 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?

  William Blake

  Cutting, Bird, Delight

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.51, Oxford Paperbacks

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• 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.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.192, Crown

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• For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

  Richard Bach

  Flying, Gulls, Matter

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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  As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

  Amelia Earhart

  Great Aviation, Left

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• 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.

  Richard Bach

  Kids, Air, Feelings

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• My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

  Richard Bach

  Home, Airplane, Flying

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Bird, Flying

  RICHARD BACH (1970). “JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL”

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• My first wife didn't like to fly, either.

  Gordon Baxter

  Funny, Wife, Firsts

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• Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

  Gordon Baxter

  Funny, Flying, Instruments

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• You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

  Martin Caidin

  Funny, Legs, Wheelbarrows

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• What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

  Gary Larson

  Funny, Clouds, Mountain

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• 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!

  Ernest K. Gann

  Funny, Airplane, Cylinders

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• I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Secret, Not Afraid

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• For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Moon, Years

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• I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

  John Glenn

  Flying, Taste, Flight

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• The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world's condition, flying is their life.

  Ernest K. Gann

  War, Book, Character

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• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  Cesar Pelli

  Running, Badass, Bad Ass

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Art, Wine, Years

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• The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Airplane, Men

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• To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

  Nevil Shute

  Airplane, Climbing, Flying

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• 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.

  L. Welch Pogue

  Ocean, Home, Airplane

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• 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.

  Jean Batten

  Travel, Ocean, Airplane

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