Flying Quotes

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours—one hour for flying and the other to get to the airport.

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it . . . Free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

[Soon] the only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, "Will you be flying in armed or unarmed?"

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.

Doc Daneeka hated to fly. He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane.

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

Flight is but momentary escape from the eternal custody of earth.

All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.