"The air is the only place free from prejudices. I knew we had no aviators, neither men nor women, and I knew the Race…"

"Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting."

"Fleets are not confined to the ocean, but now sail over the land. … All the power of the British Navy has not been ab…"

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, an…"

"The saying ‘Getting there is half the fun’ became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines."

"“No airship will ever fly from New York to Paris. That seems to me to be impossible. What limits the flight is the mo…"

"It is in the nature of the human surveying capacity that it can function only if man disentangles himself from all in…"

"He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind."

"Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air."

"Wal, I like flyin' well enough," He said, "but the' ain't sich a thundern' sight O' fun in't when ye come to light."