Quotes About Fighter Pilots

#1. Of the twenty-eight thousand German fighter pilots to see combat in WWII, only twelve hundred survived the war.

Adam Makos

#2. If there is a hell, then I'll be in good company with a lot of fighter pilots who also had to bomb innocents to win the war.

Timothy McVeigh

#3. A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

Nathan Farragut Twining

#4. Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. Fighter pilots. What idiot idea possessed me to put fighter pilots at the controls of starships?

Evan Currie

#6. Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

Chuck Yeager

#7. We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Forgiveness and acceptance, I thought as we found a spot near the largest tree in the lobby. Although I'd been kidding with Georgia, I was pretty sure those were the keys to relationships. Everything else was just ego and hurt feelings.

Megan Crane

#9. Weapons seem to be the issue now, isn't it?" "Aye," said Billy. "The Germans and the Italians are supplying the rebels with guns and ammunition, as well as fighter planes and pilots. But no one is helping the elected Spanish government.

Ken Follett

#10. The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.

L. Todd Rose

#11. As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

Karren Brady

#12. The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.

Werner Molders

#13. The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

W. H. Auden

#14. Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.

Victoria Wood

#15. If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.

Charles H. MacDonald

#16. I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

Nawal El Saadawi

#17. An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

Adolf Galland

#18. There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.

Robin Olds

#19. The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#20. Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

Adolf Galland

#21. You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you." He surveyed her with mocking green eyes. "You think you're the first high-kick wench I've ever had? I used to have blue-blooded bitches like you pay me to do this. You've gotten it for free.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!

Ron McKeown

#23. I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

Shirley Maclaine

#24. To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

John Trevor Godfrey

#25. Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

David McCampbell

#26. Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

Cotton Mather