Flight Quotes - Page 23

• Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I did this, however, to be able to say good-bye to the old dear; and I really felt dreadfully sorry to part with her. I get very attached to aeroplanes, and I am one of those people who think that they aren't so inanimate as we are told they are.

  Charles Rumney Samson

  Sorry, Thinking, Bye

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• There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.

  Alex James

  Flying, Machines, Thrill

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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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• Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Space, Flying, Use

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

  Richard Bach

  Men, Velvet, Veils

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me at the first opportunity, and one afternoon he climbed into the cockpit and we flew over the Redwood Falls together. From that day on I never heard a word against my flying and he never missed a chance to ride in the plane.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Father, Fall, Opportunity

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• The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Jobs, Night

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• There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.

  Richard Branson

  Stars, Feelings, Aviation

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• Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground. This separation from the earth is more than symbolic, more than a physical removal - it has an emotional dimension as tangible as the wood, fabric, and steel that has transported you aloft.

  Stephen Coonts

  Emotional, Promise, Dreamer

  "The Cannibal Queen". Book by Stephen Coonts, January 1, 1992.

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• "Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?"

  Gavin Lyall

  Men, Wings, Flying

  Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water vapor - and the sky turns dark until one can see the stars at noon.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Dark, Dust

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• Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Men, Flying

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

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• What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Strong, Lying, Men

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• And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Eye, Glasses, Giving

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

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• The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based on dogma or a set of beliefs, nor on scriptures or a sacred book revealed by a great man. Witchcraft takes it's teachings from nature, and reads inspiration in the movements of the sun, moon, and stars, the flight of birds, the slow growth of trees, and the cycles of the seasons.

  Starhawk

  Stars, Book, Teaching

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• I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.

  Stan Musial

  Moving, Curves, Feet

  "Stan Musial, baseball great, dies at 92", www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2013.

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• No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This can happen on any flight. It can happen on the last one as well as the first one. You just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew, and you go fly.

  Gus Grissom

  Mind, Care, Lasts

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• Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Running, Dark

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• In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all the powers of darkness.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, Simple, Darkness

  Charles Hodge (1856). “A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians”, p.389

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• Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Envy, Bird

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• The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl, making her first and only flight in an aeroplane, should somehow bear responsibility for the actions of a government for whom she was never allowed the chance to grow up and vote either for or against.

  Menzies Campbell

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.

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• Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, America, Fire

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.

  Bob Hoover

  Flying, Pilots, Aviation

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• Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Clouds, Sea

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. I), 1939.

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• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Jealous, Fighting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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