Air Travel Quotes

• I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

  George S. Kaufman

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Funny Life

  "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Distance, Air, Time Flies

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.14, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.94, Ballantine Books

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• I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.

  Naomi Campbell

  Humorous, Flying, Mind

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• A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Food, Airports

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• 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

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

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• To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Humorous, Airplane, Aviation

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• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Children, Airplane

  Pluck and Luck (1925)

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• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, Home, Air

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• Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

  Janet Napolitano

  Travel, Air, People

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• Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

  Bruce Schneier

  Real, Successful, Air

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• This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dream, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

  Charles C. Mann

  Air, Different, Would Be

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• We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Love, Peace, Nature

  Speech to Economic and Social Council of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 July 1965

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• There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Funny, Travel, Humorous

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• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Travel, Airplane

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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• I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humorous

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• There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

  Wendell Willkie

  Airplane, Flying, World

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