50 Flying Quotes – Best Quotes About Flying
Looking for the best flying quotes? These 50 epic flying quotes will show you the true gift and freedom of flying.
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The following quotes about flying will instantly warm your heart.
These flying quotes will also make you realise what TRUE gift and freedom of flying.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest flying quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 flying quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
FLYING QUOTES
1 – 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 DaVinci
2 – My soul is in the sky. William Shakespeare
3 – Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are. Felix Baumgartner
4 – When everything seems to be against you, remember that an airplane takes-off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
5 – Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards. Leonardo Da Vinci
6 – Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not. Michael Parfit
7- 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
8 – Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. Jean Batten
9 – 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
10 – I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. Harun Yahya
FLYING QUOTES
11 – The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. Walter Raleigh
12 – Indulge your imagination in every possible flight. Jane Austen
13 – It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. Helen Keller
14 – Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see. Charles A. Lindbergh
15 – I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. Charles Bukowski
16 – When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that. Gene Roddenberry
17- The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. Friedrich Nietzsche
18 – The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes. An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.” – Harry Reasone
19 – On airplanes, strangers confide in me their most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I’ll understand. And I generally do understand. John Waters
20 – The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have the time to fall. Orville Wright
FLYING QUOTES
21 – Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings; it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky. Craig D. Lounsbrough
22 – Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
23 – I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. Jean Kerr
24 – If you have a fear of flying, don’t. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane. Peter Diamandis
25 – To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless. Ted Turner
26 – For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics. Alan Alda
27- The airplanes slowly taxied to the beginning of the runway, humbly and calmly with flaps down, bowing with deference to the infinite sky. Ross Victory
28 – The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh
29 – There’s only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky; and that is pilot. Mohith Agadi
30 – Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute. George Bernard Shaw
FLYING QUOTES
31 – If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband. Louise Thaden
32 – Flight is the only truly new sensation that men have achieved in modern history. James Dickey
33 – The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air. Wilbur Wright
34 – It’s only when you’re flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is. Philippe Perrin
35 – 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
36 – Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell. Ernest K Gann
37- Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. Golda Meir
38 – What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge. Oliver Smithies
39 – 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
40 – Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. Alexander Chase
FLYING QUOTES
41 – I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
42 – Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. Charles Lindbergh
43 – Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash
44 – No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake
45 – Aviation is proof that given the will, we have capacity to achieve the impossible. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
46 – I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
47- Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Amelia Earhart
48 – Flying is done largely with the imagination. Wolfgang Langewiesche
49 – I don’t have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. Billy Bob Thornton
50 – I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain. Amy Johnson
BONUS: Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor. Paul Theroux
BONUS: Sometimes happiness is like the sound of a plane overhead. You look up to see it but the plane’s not there. No matter where you look you can’t find it in the sky, although the sound is still there and growing louder.
You get a little frantic searching. At the same time you’re thinking, this is stupid. But you keep looking and if you do finally see it, you feel absolved. Most of my life I’d been looking for happiness in the wrong parts of the sky. Jonathan Carroll
BONUS: Soaring in the heavens, away from all civilization, would allow her the freedom she needed to escape from the gravity of what people thought. Kaylin McFarren
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
I’m Frances Vidakovic – a mindset & action coach for quietly ambitious women who want to stop overthinking and finally take aligned action. I help women achieve their goals and follow through on what matters, without sacrificing their sanity or soul.