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

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

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

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
Linda M. Godwin

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

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad

There is an art . . . to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
Orson Welles

That’s not flying, that’s just falling with style.
Woody

All my life, I’ve never been able to get enough airplanes. This will keep me flying every day.
Hoot Gibson

We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.
Lord Swinton

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
James Dickey

My soul is in the sky.
William Shakespeare

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

My wings are a thousand books.
Gill Robb Wilson

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
Duane G. Carey

The butterfly is a flying flower…
Ponce Denis �couchard Lebrun

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Lord Byron

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
Sir James Matthew Barrie

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
Charles A

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
attributed to Donald Douglas

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
George Orwell

Time is flying, never to return.
Virgil

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Jonathon Swift

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.
Reba McEntire

If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it’s probably best to avoid eye contact.
Jack Handy

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the air to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
Titus Maccius Plautus

If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport.
George Winters

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
Marilyn vos Savant

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.
Gunter’s Second Law of Air Travel

Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
Harold Wilson

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
William Arthur Ward

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
Golda Meir

In response to how he checked the weather, “I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: ‘When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!’
Gordon Baxter

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
Will Durant

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

But I don’t think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.
Gerard Arpey

Cool things happen. Ace’s guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.
Peter Criss

Is the foolish dog, bark at the flying bird.
Bob Marley

The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, “Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?
Robin Williams

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

Gather the rose buds while ye may, old time is still a flying, And that same flower that blooms today, tomorrow shall be dying.
James Thomson

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.
Eydie Gorme