Flying Quotes
+4In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
+1My soul is in the sky.
- William Shakespeare
+1My wings are a thousand books.
— Gill Robb Wilson
+1Never use a cannon to kill a fly.
- Confucius
+1The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Angels can fly because they carry no burdens.
- Eileen Elias
+1Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
- African Proverb
+1There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
- Orson Welles
+1Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
+1The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
- Antoine
+1We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.
- Lord Swinton
+1The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche.
- Cesar Pelli
+1The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
– G.K. Chesterton
+1The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
+1The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.
- Walter Raleigh
+1You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.
- Amelia Earhart
+1I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
- Antoine
+1If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?
- E.Y. Harburg
+1Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
- William Shakespeare
+1Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.
- Igor Sikorsky
+1A woman is like your shadow – follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
- Chamfort
+1Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
- James Dickey
+1Why fly? Simple. I’m not happy unless there’s some room between me and the ground.
- Richard Bach
+1As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
- George Orwell
+1But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
- John James Audubon
+1The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.
- Louis Bleriot
+1If black boxes survive air crashes, why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
- George Carlin
+1All my life, I’ve never been able to get enough airplanes. This will keep me flying every day.
- Hoot Gibson
+1A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
- Joseph Conrad
+1To put your life in danger from time to time… breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities.
- Nevil Shute
+1How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground – seconds away thousands of miles away.
- Charles A. Lindbergh
+1Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
- Alexander Chase
+1The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
- Sir James
+1I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I’m just soul on a sunbeam.
- Richard Bach
+1There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- Douglas Adams
+1Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.
- Mary Kay Ash
+1Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
- Gil Stern
+1Flying whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also,though he may go a different way about it.
- Samuel Butler
+1The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be? it is the same the angels breathe.
- Mark Twain
