62 Airborne Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous airborne quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational airborne quotes. Hopefully, these airborne quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your airborne knowledge!

Quick Jump To

Famous Airborne Quotes

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on. — Elie Wiesel

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. - Toni Morrison

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. — Toni Morrison

The 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

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings. — Gregory Maguire

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium — Dick Trickle

A bird that flies off the Earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground. — African Proverbs

I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings — Drake

The air is the only place free from prejudices. - Bessie Coleman

The air is the only place free from prejudices. — Bessie Coleman

Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart. — John P. Jumper

I am an obsessive flyer, myself. — Jason Reitman

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together. — Septima Poinsette Clark

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . — Charles Lindbergh

Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots will make you levitate — Prodigy

To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home. — Jerry Crawford

Short Airborne Quotes

  • If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. — Bob Hoover
  • In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong
  • You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over. — Chuck Hagel
  • If you don't like what you see, stop looking. — Nancy Lopez
  • You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. — Steve Prefontaine
  • Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. — Stephen King
  • Imaginatively in a pictorial sense I was airborne. — Paul Nash
  • A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere. — Warren Buffett
  • Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law! — Adam Savage
  • A fool and his money are soon married. — Carolyn Wells

Airborne Image Quotes

People Writing About Airborne

Name Quotes Likes
Read quotes by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel
quotes on indifference, god and holocaust

553 4099
Read quotes by Giulio Douhet

Giulio Douhet
quotes on education, leadership and life

11 303
Read quotes by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison
quotes on love, life and writing

372 3014
Read quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain
quotes on life, travel and love

2433 47813
Read quotes by Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire
quotes on love, education and writing

210 554
Read quotes by African Proverbs

African Proverbs
quotes on life, wisdom and water

157 3171

More Airborne Quotes

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. — William James

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. — Philippe Halsman

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. — Hugh Shelton

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed. — Alex Garland

Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground. — Rodney Mullen

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace. — Pearl S. Buck

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him. — Stephen King

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. — Colin Powell

Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness. — Margaret Chan

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life. — Beryl Markham

Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing. — Eddie Izzard

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams. — Maya Angelou

So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. — Ann Coulter

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law. — Michael Badnarik

A fool and his money are soon partying. — Steven Wright

I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize. — Rick Atkinson

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed. — Alex Garland

You might think that's an exaggeration but believe me, if you leave twin two-year-olds alone in your living room, at some point a cow will be airborne. — Ray Romano

Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from each other. Puffing hard, Rondus cut through a gazebo and started down the stairs to the field. Only a few steps behind, Doren went airborne and slammed into the heavyset satyr. Together they pitched violently forward into the grass, staining their skin green. — Brandon Mull

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure. — Seth Green

[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; in fact, there are soft wolves and hard wolves, kind wolves and malicious wolves, soldiers and nurses, philosophers and bullies. — Peter Steinhart

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. — Lance Morrow

To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution. — Burt Rutan

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing — Stephen King

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. — Sam Keen

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking. — Sarah Dessen

The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble. — Frank Beddor

In Conclusion

Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of airborne quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about airborne to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.

Citation

Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of airborne quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.

Embed HTML Link

Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage