Flight Quotes - Page 3

• All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

  Neil Armstrong

  Adventure, Wrinkles, Generations

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• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

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

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• If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Believe, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Light, Sky

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And by a prudent flight and cunning save
  A life which valour could not, from the grave.
  A better buckler I can soon regain,
  But who can get another life again?

  Archilochus

  Life, Prudent, Graves

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• I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sky, Aviation, Imagine

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• The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

  Pete Conrad

  Interesting, Apollo, Firsts

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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

  Airplane, Kids, Moon

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• Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

  Chuck Yeager

  Real, Sky, Experience

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

  Charles Gounod

  Butterfly, Hands, Ideas

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• Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Real, Flying

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.126, Penguin

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• It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Sky, Flying

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• When you awaken in the morning's hush
  I am the swift uplifting rush
  Of quiet birds in circled flight.
  I am the soft stars that shine at night.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry;
  I am not there, I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

  Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

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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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• The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Light, Climbing, Wind

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• Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

  Gary Zukav

  Perfectionism, Perpetual, Illusory

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 29, 2014

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• Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

  Guy Murchie

  Flying, Exhilaration, Strange

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

  Georg Hermes

  Death, Arrows, Dying

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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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• Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Adventure, Discovery, Flying

  ANNE MORROW lINDBERGH (1973). “HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD”

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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

  Airplane, Men, Flying

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

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• Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

  Gordon Cooper

  Thank You, Father, Able

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• Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Dream, Airplane, Reality

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

  Beryl Markham

  Adventure, Knowing, Air

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.

  Louise Thaden

  Husband, Men, Wife

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

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