Inspirational airplane quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Most Famous Airplane Quotes
Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors. – George Carlin
The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have the time to fall. – Orville Wright
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird. – Simon Newcomb
A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child’s kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us. We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find…… a perfect paper airplane. – Ellen Hopkins
Jimmy Carter used to walk off the airplane carrying his own luggage. Do you remember that? I don’t want my president carrying – I want the freaking Marines to be carrying his luggage, and they want to carry his luggage. – Donald Trump
Logic proved that airplanes can’t fly and that H-bombs won’t work and that stones don’t fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow. – Robert Heinlein
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me – when I was an 8-year-old. They’re in shorts and T-shirts. And it’s not just on airplanes. It’s in business offices, teacherslounges, and churches. – P. J. O’Rourke
And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot’s own. ― Richard Bach, A Gift Of Wings
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. – Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. – Otto Lilienthal
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. – Satchel Paige
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. – Simon Newcomb
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. ― Charles Bukowski
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. – Jean Kerr
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore
We can’t hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane. – Eugene Ormandy
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford
The sky itself will have to be the roof of the auditorium of the future, I will have to forego the car and even the airplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge. – Sri Sathya Sai Baba
When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying. – Donald Wills
We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life on Earth. – Steven Magee
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford
An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger into a panic and fear. Politics are much the same. Better to be balanced on both sides than to fly on a crazy angle. – Rebecca McNutt
If this plane were to crash, we could get a new start on this quasar problem. – William Fowler
Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful. – Casey Stengel quotes
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact. – Barack Obama
Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
The man who flies an airplane … must believe in the unseen. – Richard Bach
Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. – Adolf Galland
Do you believe in God? asked the girl once again.
Yes, I do, I guess. Perhaps more so when I am in trouble. Especially when I am flying in an airplane. – Abhaidev, That Thing About You
The chances that your tombstone will read ‘Killed by Asteroidare about the same as they’d be for ‘Killed in Airplane Crash.- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight. There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight. – Richard Bach
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. – Walter Raleigh
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. – Richard Bach
There’s only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky; and that is pilot. – Mohith Agadi
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. – Antoine de Saint-Exupary
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. – Claude Debussy
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. – Sir George Cayley
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you’re anxious to meet people who do. – Henry A Kissinger
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
The chances that your tombstone will read ‘Killed by Asteroidare about the same as they’d be for ‘Killed in Airplane Crash. Neil deGrasse Tyson
I don’t think I’m a celebrity. I’m just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. – Carroll Shelby
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step………the step taken to climb the ladder which gets you into the airplane… – Ankala Subbarao
I’m in the same traffic as everybody else. I’m in the same airplane delay as everybody else. I sit in the same coach seat as everybody else. – Bill Gates
A fighter without a gun…is like an airplane without a wing. – Brigadier General Robin
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. – Francis Gary Power
Anyone who’s not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere. – Paul MacCready
It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can’t shut them up. – Chuck Palahniuk
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. – Vladimir Nabokov
Pilots have an established history of committing mass murder during their suicides. – Steven Magee
With respect to Iraq, I did favour the continuity of American forces to work with the new Maliki government. They had enormous needs for intelligence, for training on everything from airplanes to more sophisticated ground equipment and the like. – Hillary Clinton
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there. – Barbara Walters
Perhaps, mites in airplane
is just like human on planet. – Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza