There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further. – Werner von Braun

Flying birds have no master. – French Proverb

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. – Gil Stern

The roast duck can fly no more. – Chinese Proverb

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

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

I always thought that my airplane conveyed a silent sermon.  To the earthbound observer, its silhouette was the shape of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. – E.R. Trimble

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport…. – Amy Johnson

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing.  The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. – Bill Gates

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

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I? – E.Y. Harburg

I never liked riding in helicopters because there’s a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part. – John Wittenborn

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. – James Thurber

How strange is this combination of proximity and separation.  That ground – seconds away – thousands of miles away. – Charles A. Lindbergh

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

True courage consists not in flying from the storms of life, but in braving and steering through them with prudence. – Hannah Webster Faster

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

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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

No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground. – Danish Proverb

Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. – Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. – Cesar Pelli

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. – Leonardo Da Vinci

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

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. – G.K. Chesterton

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

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours – one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. – Neil McElroy

This is the first convention of the space age – where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. – Author Unknown

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. – Henry David Thoreau