118 quotes by aviators for you to enjoy

About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K. Charles Lindbergh

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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. Charles Lindbergh

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We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment. Charles Lindbergh

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Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background. Charles Lindbergh

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There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. Charles Lindbergh

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There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. Chesley Sullenberger

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People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations. Chesley Sullenberger

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After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980. Chesley Sullenberger

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better. Chesley Sullenberger

I try to work out, time permitting, wherever I am. Chesley Sullenberger

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My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another. Chesley Sullenberger

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