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Quotations about Flying
The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul. ~Walter Raleigh, The War in the Air: Being the Story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force, 1922
AVIATION Winged levity wobbling about in the center of gravity. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Altogether New Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, 1914
No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others. ~Elbert Hubbard
To walk Jim Jones was not contented,
And so an air-ship he invented;
He sailed away
One summer day,
And people say
He won't return home very soon,
For Jim Jones sailed up to the moon.
~L. Frank Baum, Father Goose, His Book, 1899
What a delightful sensation is that of flying, in dreams! Have you never found yourself trying at midnight the most daring experiment of Dædalus — climbing to some hill-top as a starting point, venturing a leap from the bedroom window sill, or even feeling so lightsome as to soar aloft from the level road? As long as you have faith, you sail along superbly through ether, scarcely deigning to look at the few surprised mortals who are on terra firma below you; but no sooner do you begin to wonder whether you won't fall than your waxen wings melt, and down you come toppling into the Icarian Sea. ~Thomas Clark Henley, A Handful of Paper Shavings, 1861
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
O, for a horse with wings! ~William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, c.1609
The desire for flight burned in her, as it burns in every winged soul... ~Agnes Repplier
PARACHUTE A successful method for getting the drop on the Earth. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904
...he who wisheth one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing: — one doth not fly into flying! ~Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. ~Henry David Thoreau
Here's a tip to investors: Buy airship stocks. They are sure to go up. ~"Edlets," The Spatula: An Illustrated Magazine for Pharmacists, 1919
My soul is in the sky... ~William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, c.1595
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. ~G. K. Chesterton
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh, why can't I?
~E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (1896–1981), "Over the Rainbow," 1939 ♫
Bicycling, furthermore, is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~Louis J. Halle, Jr., Spring in Washington, 1947
How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground — seconds away — thousands of miles away... The nearness of death. The longness of life. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1953
Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long; I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong. ~Ogden Nash, "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation Is Beater than Yours," 1959
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