Lindbergh's Quotes

#1. In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

Peter Diamandis

#2. But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21

Winston Groom

#3. This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

Juan Trippe

#4. I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

Bill Bryson

#5. Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

Joseph Murray

#6. Science is insulating man from life - separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#7. The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#8. It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. War is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#10. You can't just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else's appreciation.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#11. Seems to me the most beautiful thing on earth, perhaps because it is unearthly, and the touch of God in us: the miracle of mercy, the unexpected, the arms of the prodigal son's father, the ravens bringing food in the night, the cup running over.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#12. There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

Peter Lindbergh

#13. Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time ...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#14. Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#15. It's the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without a plane.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#16. There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#17. One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#18. Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Charles Lindbergh

#19. A day out of season, stopping the monotonous count of summer days. Stopping, too, one's own summer routine, so that, looking out on the gray skies, one says not only, 'What time of year is it?' but, 'What time of life am I in? Where am I? What am I doing?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#20. I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#21. When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

Charles Lindbergh

#22. The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

Arthur C. Clarke

#23. So many things we love are you!

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#24. Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#25. It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#26. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#27. Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#28. I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#29. What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it
only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#30. One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

Charles Lindbergh

#31. Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

Charles Lindbergh

#32. I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

Peter Lindbergh

#33. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#34. For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.

Peter Lindbergh

#35. Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.

Peter Lindbergh

#36. These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.

Peter Lindbergh

#37. Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#38. If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

Charles Lindbergh

#39. I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.

Peter Lindbergh

#40. Accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate, aircraft crash. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost-sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy.

Charles Lindbergh

#41. Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Peter Lindbergh

#42. This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.

Harry Frank Guggenheim

#43. The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

Peter Lindbergh

#44. People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#45. And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

Charles Lindbergh

#46. The pattern of our lives is essentially circular. We must be open to all points of the compass; husband, children, friends, home, community; stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider's web to each breeze that blows, to each call that comes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#47. I had the feeling, when the thoughts first clarified on paper, that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#48. Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.

Peter Lindbergh

#49. It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't walk.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#50. You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.

Peter Lindbergh

#51. What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

Charles Lindbergh

#52. What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#53. I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#54. To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#55. If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#56. America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#57. Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#58. Packing is chiefly planning
if it is

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#59. After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

A. Scott Berg

#60. We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#61. In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

Peter Lindbergh

#62. I think best with a pencil in my hand.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#63. This beautiful image is to my mind the one that women could hold before their eyes. This is an end toward which we could strive - to be the still axis within the revolving wheel of relationships, obligations and activities.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#64. How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#65. The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#66. Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#67. To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open ... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

Peter Lindbergh

#68. Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest ...

Charles A. Lindbergh

#69. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#70. Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#71. Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#72. Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

Charles Lindbergh

#73. For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#74. I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

Peter Lindbergh

#75. If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#76. Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

Peter Lindbergh

#77. Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Charles Lindbergh

#78. To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#79. It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down.

Charles Lindbergh

#80. There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#81. Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of "coming of age" -to learn how to stand alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#82. The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#83. Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.

Charles Lindbergh

#84. The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#85. And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#86. The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

Peter Lindbergh

#87. Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Charles Lindbergh

#88. Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#89. The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead.

Charles August Lindbergh

#90. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#91. One longs to explain, to be sure they understand, the people one loves.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#92. We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.

Charles Lindbergh

#93. Woman's life today is tending more and more toward ... 'Zerrissenheit'
torn to pieces-hood. She cannot live perpetually in 'Zerrissenheit.' She will be shattered into a thousand pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#94. I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#95. At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

Charles Lindbergh

#96. The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

Charles Lindbergh

#97. A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.

Peter Lindbergh

#98. The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.

Erik Lindbergh

#99. I believe that true identity is found ... in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#100. Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh