Flying Quotes

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

G. K. Chesteron

Flying can be easy at times, but with the wrong machine or the wrong person at the controls, it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Paul Gallagher

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

Amelia Earhart

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

James Dickey

The butterfly is a flying flower...

Ponce Denis …couchard Lebrun

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.

Wilbur Wright

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Doug Coupland

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

Daniela Pestova

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart

The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

Otto Lilienthal

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.

Otto Lilienthal

There is an art to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.

Walter Raleigh

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Wilfred Owen

Flying is a lot like playing a musical instrument; you're doing so many things and thinking of so many other things, all at the same time. It becomes a spiritual experience. Something wonderful happens in the pit of your stomach.

Dusty McTavish

In our dreams we are able to fly ... and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

Madeleine L\'Engle

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de St-Exupery

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Pappy Boyington

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