Flight Quotes

"If you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can."

Beryl Markham

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."

Charles Lindbergh

"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."

"The air is the only place free from prejudice."

Bessie Coleman

"I could have gone on flying through space forever."

"They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one."

Alan Shepard

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air."

Wilbur Wright

“The ideal solution of the problem of transportation will be arrived at only when the complete annihilation of distance in the transmission of power shall have become a commercial reality. That day we shall invade the domain of the bird.”

“We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.”

“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.”

“I owned the world that hour as I rode over it.”

Charles Lindbergh