I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground – seconds away – thousands of miles away. – Charles A. Lindbergh
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, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. – Orson Welles
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. – Gil Stern
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. – James Dickey
O! for a horse with wings! – William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
The butterfly is a flying flower… – Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination. – Wilbur Wright
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. – Wendell Willkie
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. – Alexander Chase, "Perspectives," 1966
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. – Titus Maccius Plautus
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. – Henry David Thoreau
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. – Walter Raleigh
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite. – Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. – Cesar Pelli
This is the first convention of the space age – where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. – Author Unknown
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours – one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. – Neil McElroy
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. – Leonardo Da Vinci (Thanks, Tommy)
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. – Bill Gates
