You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.
A fool and his money are soon married.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.
Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!
A fool and his money are soon partying.
A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.
If you don't like what you see, stop looking.
When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing
Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops.
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.
The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.
There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.
or simply:
