Quotes: Airplanes

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I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Charles Lindbergh

American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

Ted Olson

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Claude Debussy

French classical composer (1862-1918)

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world’s most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

Thor Heyerdahl

Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)

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

Hoot Gibson

American actor

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.

Harry Reasoner

American journalist

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

Dave Reichert

Former United States Representative from Washington

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

John L. Phillips

American astronaut

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Ferdinand Foch

French marchal and military theorist (1851-1929)

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

Jack Vance

American mystery and speculative fiction writer (1916-2013)

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