Flying Quotes

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. (Neil Armstrong)
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease. View quote
Alejandro Jodorowsky
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. View quote
Sylvia Plath
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. View quote
John Muir
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. View quote
Richard Bach
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)
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer... and there are flying cars. View quote
Joss Whedon
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. View quote
George Orwell
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. View quote
Walter Scott
As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others. View quote
John Travolta
I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today. View quote
Graham Brown
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. View quote
Albert Ellis
Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen. View quote
Valentina Tereshkova
I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. (David Morse)
Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed. View quote
Eydie Gorme
But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit. View quote
Gerard Arpey
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. View quote
Jacqueline Cochran
It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is. View quote
Philippe Perrin
📖 Flying Proverbs