No need to teach an eagle to fly.
—Greek Proverb
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
—Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American Aviator
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
—Bill Maher (b.1956) American Comedian, TV Host, Commentator
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright
There is no flying without wings.
—French Proverb
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
—James Dickey (1923–97) American Poet, Writer
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.
—Samuel Butler
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I’m just soul on a sunbeam.
—Richard Bach (b.1936) American Writer, Aviator
God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.
—Turkish Proverb
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.
—Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) English Courtier, Navigator, Poet
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.
—Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American Aviator
Flying birds have no master.
—French Proverb
The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.
—Charles Lindbergh (1902–74) American Aviator, Inventor, Conservationist
They quarrel about an egg and let the hen fly.
—German Proverb
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
—Chinese Proverb
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator
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 (b.1970) Czech Model
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.
—Golda Meir (1898–1978) Israeli Head of State
Don’t try to fly before you have wings.
—French Proverb
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
The roast duck can fly no more.
—Chinese Proverb
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
—Common Proverb
Never Forget!- The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
In our dreams we are able to fly … and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
—Madeleine L’Engle (1918–2007) American Author
To fall is not painful for those who fly low.
—Chinese Proverb
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 (1952–2001) English Novelist, Scriptwriter
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn’t.
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American Author, Journalist, Short Story Writer
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