Flying Quotes - Page 28

• Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Omnipotence, Childhood

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• Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

  Adolf Galland

  Inspirational, Life, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Use, Torn Apart

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.209, 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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• Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Men, Tests

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

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• Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ideas, Space, Tea

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• Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.

  Thomas Keneally

  Stars, Men, Air

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• It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

  Richard Bach

  Adventure, Lovely, Gone

  Richard Bach (2009). “Hypnotizing Maria”, p.57, Hampton Roads Publishing

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  I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly.

  Miranda Lambert

  Knows, Ifs

  Song: New Strings, Album: Kerosene, 2005

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• Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Dream, Children, Brain

  Stanley Kunitz (1944). “Passport to the war: a selection of poems”

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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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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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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 helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Dream, Horse, Men

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• Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Pilots, Spirit

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

  T.C. Boyle

  Prayer, Hands, Joy

  T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.348, Penguin

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• There is a still place, a gap between the worlds, spoken by the tribal knowings of thousands of years. In it are silent flyings that stand aside from human struggles and the designs of our own makings. At times, when we are silent enough, still enough, we take a step into such mystery, the place of spirit, and mystery, we must remember, by its very nature does not wish to be known.

  Linda Hogan

  Struggle, Years, Knowing

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

  Laura Miller

  Butterfly, Feelings, Mind

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• The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

  Virginia Postrel

  Air, Luxury, Imagination

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• Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Creativity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Рипол Классик

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• My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.

  Eva Hart

  Mother, Ships, Faces

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• One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.

  A. S. J. Tessimond

  Rain, Winter, Simple

  A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

  Story Musgrave

  Military, People, Pilots

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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