Richard Bach Flying Quotes

#1. Finally I came to think that may be everything we need to know,ever,about anything,is already within us,waiting till we call for it.

Richard Bach

#2. It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

Richard Bach

#3. You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Richard Bach

#4. Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still ... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Richard Bach

#5. Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.

Chris Robinson

#6. 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

#7. For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Richard Bach

#8. What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

Richard Bach

#9. Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

Richard Bach

#10. Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kathleen Hanna

#11. Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Richard Bach

#12. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will. Within even the most unworthy of men there is a servant of God, asleep.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#13. My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Richard Bach

#14. My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.

Colman Domingo

#15. When you're flying, an airplane doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care how much money you make or don't make. All it cares about is: How well do you fly? How well do you know the airplane? How well do you know the sky?

Richard Bach

#16. A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.

Mary Lou Heiss

#17. Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Richard Bach

#18. I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

Kate Moss

#19. I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

Reginald Dwayne Betts

#20. Every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.

L.M. Montgomery