Top 39 Quotes About Flying Airplanes
#1. After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
Mark Kelly
#2. You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.
Jeff Foxworthy
#3. I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.
Scott Kelly
#4. What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.
Richard Bach
#5. My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
John L. Phillips
#6. You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.
Bob Hope
#7. Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!
Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos
#8. Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#9. It is day after day. It is week after week. It is month after month. It is year after year. It is only time going and going. There is no joy. There is no lightness of heart. It is only the passing of days. I am young and alone.
Mary MacLane
#10. No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
Dee Dee Myers
#11. I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.
Danny Meyer
#12. To be honest, I don't care how it went in.
Joe Sakic
#13. At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.
T.C. Boyle
#14. The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
#15. What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.
Gwynne Shotwell
#16. Skydiving isn't really about jumping out of airplanes. Flying through the sky is great fun, but it is what the act represents that is important. It is about Freedom.
Brian Germain
#17. And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.
Richard Bach
#18. I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
Yves Rossy
#19. The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.
Len Morgan
#20. That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.
Jennifer E. Smith
#21. Someone else's personal fantasy may well be your personal nightmare.
Cole McCade
#22. Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
Ann Richards
#23. Somehow, I think the fact that the inceptor looked like a cross between a young George Clooney and Orlando Bloom might have played into that a little bit.
Ally Carter
#25. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
George W. Bush
#26. Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
John Ruskin
#27. Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's a fascinating hobby.
Tyler Perry
#28. I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
Burt Rutan
#29. UFO's are as real as the airplanes flying overhead.
Paul Hellyer
#30. Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?
Prince Philip
#31. I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
James Hansen
#32. At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South Station
And not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of aviation.
Ogden Nash
#34. The basket would never make her famous or end up in a museum. The best part of it was the making of it, sitting at the table weaving while outside the lake crashed into shore and the seagulls roosted somewhere for the night and two women stopped for a moment to watch.
Ellen Airgood
#35. Brooms are better for sweeping than for flying," he said. "Besides, witches these days prefer airplanes. There's an in-flight snack and you arrive at your destination looking fabulous.
Z. Riddle
#36. You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.
Benjamin Hoff
#37. It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.
Arnold Palmer
#38. My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so that's when I kind of fell in love with acting.
Jessica Barth
#39. To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.
Josh Turner
