100+ Best Fly Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Inspirational fly quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

Famous Fly Quotes

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

She’ll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree! Patch grinned, I can fly. Becca Fitzpatrick

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. Charles Bukowski

And falling’s just another way to fly. Emilie Autumn

The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have the time to fall. Orville Wright

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love. Marilyn Monroe

There’s only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky; and that is pilot. Mohith Agadi

Why would you be given wings if you weren’t meant to fly? Leslye Walton

And back up they would go, not knowing where or when they would be able to land again. Maude Julien

Take these broken wings and learn to fly. Paul McCartney

Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly. Israelmore Ayivor

You don’t jump out of an airplane and stop halfway. It’s all the way. Jesse White

Those who don’t jump will never fly. Leena Ahmad Almashat

Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. Al Gore

I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that’s when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater. Demetri Martin

The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. Walter Raleigh

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all. Hayao Miyazaki

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I’m afraid, lying. Louise Thaden

Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly. J.R. Rim

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

A Rule Life without Islam is a naked tree, Birds without trees can never feel free. Leena Ahmad Almashat

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford

When I am brave enough to say goodbye, I’ll use the wings you gave me and away I’ll fly. Celia Mcmahon

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

What are you doing to me? he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. I can’t fly! You’re flying right now. I’m falling! Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said. George R.R. Martin

If you choose to crawl, so be it. If you choose to stroll, so be it. If you choose to fly, so be it. Abhishek Kumar

I’ve always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room. Bill Nye

Yeah. I’m the fly in the soup. I don’t like it any better than you do. Flies don’t like being swamped in soup, especially when it’s hot. Rex Stout

What’s important is that a customer should get off the airplane feeling, I didn’t just get from A to B. I had one of the most pleasant experiences I ever had, and I’ll be back for that reason.  Herb Kelleher

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn. Israelmore Ayivor

If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing. Chuck Yeager

Don’t need a magic carpet to soar or wings to fly. I simply close my eyes and place my soul against the sky. Melody Lee

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. Gregory  Pappy Boyington

Broken wings can heal, A bird is meant to fly. Kate Stradling

I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can’t have emails go through. It’s undisturbed. Margot Robbie

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. John Lennon

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

If you want to fly under the radar, mediocrity is the aircraft of choice. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings; it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ducks can both swim and fly. So, if you wanted to catch them, would you need a fishing license or a pilot’s license? That’s the thing I think of when I see an American flag, and I marvel over living in The Land of The free, where you can’t even catch fish without permission. Jarod Kintz

The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It’s all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency. Alan Mulally

I don’t believe that any more than I believe I can fly, and yet I hope I know that as soon as I can know I will fly, and stop believing that I won’t, and stop knowing that I can’t, I will. I don’t believe that either, but I really hope someday I will. Julia Tilson

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes. Gwynne Shotwell

You should fly and release your love back out and into the world. Anthony T. Hincks

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

If you want to fly high, go round the ground first. Anuj Jasani

Go up in a big airplane. Go high enough, and you will see the radiation rainbow interference ring around the shadow of the airplane on the clouds below. Steven Magee

Hope is a thing with feather,   but does it know how to fly? L.M. Browning

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one. Mary Ellen Mark

It’s not enough nearly to survive. One needs to flourish. One must not look to fly low. One must emulate Icarus and try to fly as high as possible. Damn the sun. Let’s make heat-resistant wax for our wings! Jack Tanner

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that. John Glenn

There are many promises in the word of God to get you through the storms of life. Just like any pilot gets trained to fly with their instruments and trust their instruments when they cannot see anything out of the airplane window, likewise we need to trust the promises of God and not rely on our feelings, emotions or instincts when in a storm of doubt, fear, worry or discouragement. Paddick Van Zyl

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be alright, it’ll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let’s take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. Ted Danson

Pools are duck ponds for people. I swim like a mallard in flight. Jarod Kintz

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

Burst and swirl and fly around, their wings shining with all the colors of the universe. Kacen Callender

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it. Barbara Kingsolver

Storms don’t come to destroy you, they come to cleanse you. Lean into it and learn to fly in the storm! Sanjo Jendayi

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

How easy it is to fly on paper wings! Helen Keller

Any design, whether it’s for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. Henry Petroski

If you were born without wings, it is nature; but if you die without wings, it is on you. Arash Pakravesh

I came up with the idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel  that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment. Bertrand Piccard

It’s not easy being a mother. We raise our children, given them wings to leave the nest, but we have no control where they will fly off too. JoAnn Ross

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be. Chris Carter

I am learning to fly and live my life. Mukesh Kwatra

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don’t try that again. Burt Rutan

When you’ve soared as high as you can go, can you ever return to earth? Mike Hockney

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

A horsefly applied itself, blind fool, to Pnin’s bald head, and was stunned by a smack of his meaty palm. Vladimir Nabokov

I know a lot of people in the aviation business, particularly ones who will fly to places where your boots get dirty when you get out of the airplane. Erik Prince

The Cities a Singer cannot fly to, his music goes there without visa. Oliseh Udogwu

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window  little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they’re rather impressive. Steve Rushin

I wanted to fly but how could I without first grabbing my wings? So I did  now I soar. Sai Marie Johnson

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it’s pretty spectacular. Kelly Ripa

The flying car is a dangerous idea. If the sky is crammed with hundreds and thousands of cars, it will look so unpleasant and the air jam or sky jam will look terrible! Moreover, if there is an accident in the sky like a car stops flying for a certain reason, then it will crash on the homes, heads of the passersby, and so on! Md. Ziaul Haque

The flying? I’m not worried about it. I’m safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane. Cory Lidle

With crippled wings, sometimes you have to fall to fly. The Malwatch. Scaylen Renvac

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

You never noticed but I was right there, standing behind you, holding the storm while you were learning to fly. Nitya Prakash

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. Otto Lilienthal

Most gurus are just spewing bullshit and hoping that you’re a fly. Steve Maraboli

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. Satchel Paige

Only when you are ready to die, does the Truth swoop in and teaches you to fly. Vivian Amis

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes. John Travolta

Our attitudes are the wings on which our talent and careers fly or dive. Rasheed Ogunlaru

On airplanes, strangers confide in me the most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I’ll understand. And I generally do understand. John Waters

Every human being who wishes to fly with the eagles first must acquire indomitable hope. Then they will be able to find it in others. Alan Maiccon

Planes will never have the final, perfect model because their idea is all about the infinity. Talismanist Giebra

You won’t know if you can fly if you never flex your wings.  The Malwatch. Scaylen Renvac

An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down. Reid Hoffman

Not all the wings are made up of feathers my dear. Some are made of glass too. Akshay Vasu

There is truly no other place bearing so much love as airports. Ioana Cristina Casapu

It’s not that geese can fly. It’s that they choose to. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Yes, I do, I guess. Perhaps more so when I am in trouble. Especially when I am flying in an airplane. Abhaidev

After seeing the passenger cabin of the Boeing 737 Max that I flew on, I was not surprised when one fatally crashed shortly afterwards, killing everyone on board. Steven Magee

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