Inspirational Airplane Quotes
“Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you.” Satchel Paige
“You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers… I don’t remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, ’cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!” Jeff Foxworthy
“The chances that your tombstone will read ‘Killed by Asteroid’ are about the same as they’d be for ‘Killed in Airplane Crash’.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
“So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life.” Henry Rollins
“And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it’s one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.” Michael Phelps
“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
“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
“Any time I’m in a moving thing, like an airplane, I’m usually asleep before we even get on our way.” Garth Brooks
“If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.” Ross Perot
“I’ve had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.” Chris Hadfield
“I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.” Barbara Bush
“It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can’t shut them up.” Chuck Palahniuk
“I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I’ve written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.” Garrison Keillor
“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, teachers’ lounges, and churches.” P. J. O’Rourke
“I don’t think I’m a celebrity. I’m just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.” Carroll Shelby
“Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.” J. Paul Getty
“‘Scary Movie’ was a different type of comedy than I’m used to. I’ve mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who wrote the film and who directed the last two ‘Scary Movie’s and ‘Airplane’ and ‘Naked Gun,’ was a lot of help.” Ashley Tisdale
“Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.” Casey Stengel
“Sometimes when I’m watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.” Ann Richards
“I was the only person I’d ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.” Bruce Springsteen
“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
“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
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford
“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
“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference’, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” Joseph Stalin
Other Best Airplane Quotes
“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
“I once made myself blackout by pulling G too quickly while flying an F-18. Being unconscious in a single-seat airplane is not good. Fortunately, I woke up in time. I learned how to better plug-in my anti-G suit.” Chris Hadfield
“I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.” Arnold Palmer
“My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.” Temple Grandin
“I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that’s probably the first question I’d like to ask: ‘Why was it necessary?” S. Truett Cathy
“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
“I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.” Jim Lovell
“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
“I’m a crazy car guy. I’ve got an airplane hangar full of cars.” Paul Walker
“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
“My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.” Sally Ride
“Teleportation would be the best because I live on airplanes. It would be super handy to be able to teleport around.” Tom Holland
“With respect to Iraq, I did favor 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
“I’m on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I’ve never had a negative interaction.” Lance Armstrong
“Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it’s been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It’s a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.” Arnold Palmer
“I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.” Trevor Noah
“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.” Chuck Yeager
“I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That’s no joke. I have a ‘half-pipe’ in there, too – you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It’s awesome. It’s the ultimate fantasy.” Paul Walker
“Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.” Jim Lovell
“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
“New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.” Jackson Pollock
“I don’t know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.” Dane Cook
“Most pilots learn when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.” Chuck Yeager
“I like that they call it an airplane cabin. A cabin is where you go to get away from stress. The cabin is a respite from the terminals on either end of the flight where noise bombards you as soon as you walk through the gate.” Regina Brett
“The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’ “Johnny Depp