Cornelia Fort Quotes

#1. Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

John Gay

#2. The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

Donna Leon

#3. I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

Cornelia Fort

#4. Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

Steven Gerrard

#5. Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots ... The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

Cornelia Fort

#6. What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

William Morris Hunt

#7. I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

Donal Logue

#8. We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.

Cornelia Fort

#9. Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

Sappho