Sayings about Flying
There is no flying without wings. ~ French Proverbs
God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Falling hurts least those who fly low. ~ Chinese Proverbs
No need to teach an eagle to fly. ~ Greek Proverbs
Birds of a color fly to the same place. ~ Welsh Proverbs
No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground. ~ Danish Proverbs
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth. ~ Traditional Proverb
Even an eagle will not fly higher than the sun. ~ Russian Proverbs
Words have no wings but they can fly many thousands of miles. ~ Korean Proverbs
Flying birds have no master. ~ French Proverb
You cannot fly with wings made of butter. ~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb
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
Don’t try to fly before you have wings. ~ French Proverb
Quotations about Flying
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My soul is in the sky. ~ William Shakespeare
Just go for a ride. Get into an airplane. Take off from the ground. See the world from a different perspective. See if you have the flying gene. ~ Tom Stillwell
Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly! ~ Author Unknown
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. ~ Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. ~ Richard Bach
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. ~ Gregory “Pappy” Boyington
Life is simple. Eat, sleep and fly. ~ Author Unknown
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~ Louis J. Helle, Jr.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. ~ Author Unknown
Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of takeoffs. ~ Author Unknown
If black boxes survive air crashes, why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff? ~ George Carlin
Flying is liberating. I can fly anywhere and everywhere I want… There is no restriction and hurdle in the air. ~ Mark Jeffries
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~ G.K. Chesterton
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
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ~ Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
Why fly? Simple. I’m not happy unless there’s some room between me and the ground. ~ Richard Bach
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
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn’t. ~ Ernest Hemingway
People who don’t fly miss so much! ~ Edna Gardner Whyte
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~ Gil Stern
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
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see. ~ Charles Lindbergh
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
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. ~ James Dickey
O! for a horse with wings! ~ William Shakespeare
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
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 airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. ~ Orson Welles
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
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen it’s shadow from the sky. ~ Amelia Earhart
If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport. ~ George Winters
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. ~ Walter Raleigh
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
One of the beautiful things about a single-piloted aircraft is the quality of the social experience. ~ Richard S. Drury
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ~ Alexander Chase
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
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I? ~ E.Y. Harburg
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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
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