flying quotes

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

I don’t fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

We fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

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

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

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

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.