And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters. — Treat Williams
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland
Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure. — Charles Lindbergh
Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. — Loren Cunningham
There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss. — Ernest K. Gann
I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying. — Kalpana Chawla
Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you. — Graham Hawkes
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly — Harry Reasoner
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell. — Ernest K. Gann
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband. — Louise Thaden
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?" — William Langewiesche
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Pappy Boyington
Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills. — Pancho Barnes
Short Airplanes And Flying Quotes
To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home. — Jerry Crawford
It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium — Dick Trickle
Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. — Juan Trippe
I am an obsessive flyer, myself. — Jason Reitman
I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage. — Bob Hope
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. — Victor J. Stenger
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. — Len Morgan
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Airplanes And Flying Image Quotes
If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.
Airplanes And Flying Quotes
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle. — Igor Sikorsky
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. — Chuck Yeager
Don't be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. — George W. Bush
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. — Amelia Earhart
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world. — L. Welch Pogue
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot
Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.' — Eileen Collins
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute
Pilots And Flying Quotes
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt. — Roald Dahl
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I? — Yip Harburg
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
Don't make me walk when I want to fly.
The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself. — Billy Bishop
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. — Bob Hoover
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets. — Ronald Reagan
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone — Philippe Perrin
I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue. — Robin Olds
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. — Neil H. McElroy
Airplane Quotes
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? — George Carlin
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.
I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. — Niall Horan
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy. — Yuri Gagarin
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. — Charles Lindbergh
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing. — Chuck Yeager
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. — Vladimir Nabokov
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded. — Bobby Fischer
Flying Plane Quotes
Humans walked around or rode horses for 999 of the last 1,000 centuries. In this century, we drive cars, fly planes, and land on the moon. — Tim Urban
I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing. — Tibor Kalman
It felt like the most natural thing in the world to do [to fly a plane at age 6]. — Edward Higgins White
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. — Bill Maher
If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? — George Carlin
If you can't fly, then run, If you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name — M.I.A.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. — Bill Maher
My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom. — Golda Meir
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. — Orson Welles
Aviation Quotes
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. — John Glenn
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart. — Manfred von Richthofen
If you want to soar in life, you must first learnt to First Love Yourself.
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. — Amelia Earhart
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades. — Hermann Goring
Eagles don't fly with pigeons.
Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. — Amelia Earhart
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer. — Hermann Goring
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it. — Manfred von Richthofen
If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good. — Curtis LeMay
Fear Of Flying Quotes
I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. — Billy Bob Thornton
I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the USA. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will fly the American flag any way but upside-down, the international signal of distress... It's too late to pray for the USA. — Fred Phelps
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die. — Nina Simone
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. — James M. Barrie
It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?" I could tell you I've got superpowers. But I can't go up to people saying "Prove I can't fly." They'd go: "What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly'? Prove you can!" — Ricky Gervais
I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears. — Franka Potente
I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning. — D. H. Lawrence
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage. — Sam Keen
You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day. — Rachel McAdams
I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it. — Hugh Jackman
Plane Rides Quotes
I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff. — Catherine Bell
I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. — Henry Rollins
Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away. — Michael Patrick King
What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out. — Buddy Wakefield
The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum. — Dean Smith
The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed. — Alan Shepard
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media. — Joel Osteen
It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies. — Keren Ann
Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride. — Ginger Rogers
I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway. — Keri Russell
Jet Planes Quotes
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. — Jackie Kennedy
Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular. — Lawrence Summers
Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did. — Ben E. King
The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature. — Thubten Yeshe
One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something — Francis Ford Coppola
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures. — Barry Commoner
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement. — Elon Musk
I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again — John Denver
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben
A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it. — Dan Millman
I Want To Fly Quotes
I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine. — Brendon Urie
I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California. — Thuy Trang
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks. — Sheryl Lee
There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. — Marc Bolan
If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly! — Yehudi Menuhin
Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly? — J. K. Rowling
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. — Hedy Lamarr
I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. — Shel Silverstein
The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker. — John Krasinski
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings. — Erica Jong
Everyone knows that a gorilla can’t fly an airplane. Whether or not the psychiatrist really did get involved – and if he did, whether he was aware of the gorilla masks – remains ambiguous to Dr. Craig Luther. But for the purposes of a strategic deception campaign, the point is clear: no one wants to be mistaken for a fool. — Annie Jacobsen
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all. — Jacques Charles
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. — Socrates
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly. — Len Morgan
Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. — Charles Lindbergh
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. — Wendell Willkie
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. — Barack Obama
I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon. — Steve Toltz
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing
pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. — Ann Richards
No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two. — William J. Bernstein
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. — Richard Bach
I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force. — Michael P. Anderson
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. — Wendell Willkie
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. — Ted Danson
When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies. — Morgan Freeman
Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be. — Chris Carter
Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the Parks and Recreation characters. — Chris Pratt
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. — Jack Vance
I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science. — David M. Brown
I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s. — Douglass North
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong. — Wolfgang Langewiesche
Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet. — Bevo Howard
There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast! — Roscoe Turner
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable. — Richard Bach
I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport. — George W. Bush
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. — Richard Bach
When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there. — Donald Miller
Flying. 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
My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground. — Anne Lamott
We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them. — Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be. — Simon Newcomb
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of airplanes and flying quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about airplanes and flying to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of airplanes and flying quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
