Quotes About Jimmy Doolittle

#1. I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

Wally Schirra

#2. I could never be so lucky again

Jimmy Doolittle

#3. The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

Ellen Raskin

#4. The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

Jimmy Doolittle

#5. A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

Tristram Stuart

#6. Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

Jimmy Doolittle

#7. Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.

Jury Nel

#8. The path of social reform like the path to heaven at any rate in India, is strewn with many difficulties. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

#9. Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

Jimmy Doolittle

#10. I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.

Jimmy Doolittle

#11. Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

Jimmy Doolittle

#12. To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

Jimmy Doolittle

#13. I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

Jimmy Doolittle

#14. God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Samuel Beckett

#15. He was raised by wolves", she said, "wolves with pressing engineering diagrams to draw.

Sam Starbuck

#16. When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

Chaka Khan

#17. The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

Jimmy Doolittle

#18. If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Jimmy Doolittle

#19. The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

Jimmy Doolittle