Flying Quotes

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  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.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Stars

  Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

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• You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!

  Walt Disney

  Fall, Style, Buzz

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  My soul is in the sky.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Sky, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.178, Callisto Media Inc

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivation, Flying High, Aviation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Perfect, Romance

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• It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is

  Philippe Perrin

  Earth, Realizing, Incredibles

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• When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

  Chetan Bhagat

  Inspirational, People, Looks

  Twitter post from Jul 8, 2013

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• Flying is done largely with the imagination.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Imagination, Done, Pilots

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• What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.

  Oliver Smithies

  Overcoming, Overcoming Fear, Teach

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• Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

  Socrates

  Airplane, Men, Atmosphere

  Quoted in Brugioni, From Balloons to Blackbirds (1993).

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• I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Airplane, Years, Tourism

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  The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Clouds, Flying High

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4707, Delphi Classics

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

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Mind

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Mean, Doing The Right Thing

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

  Amelia Earhart

  Travel, Fun, Challenges

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Moving On, Dance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.188, Penguin

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• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• Not every flying hero has a cape.

  Michael Jordan

  Hero, Capes

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• The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

  Steve Fossett

  Aviation, Boring, Good Things

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  Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

  Neil Armstrong

  Joy, Special, Pilots

  "In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility". Book by Francis French and Colin Burgess, September 2007.

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• If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

  Yip Harburg

  Rainbow, Littles, Pilots

  Song: Over the Rainbow

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• When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Thinking, Nuts

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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