47 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!
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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
People Writing About Airborne
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Neil Armstrong |
69 | 1141 |
 Chuck Hagel |
66 | 222 |
 Nancy Lopez |
14 | 109 |
 Steve Prefontaine |
42 | 454 |
 Stephen King |
1306 | 6633 |
 Warren Buffett |
928 | 10385 |
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
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