195 Quotes by Charles Lindbergh

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities who lives on worldly mountains and descended for intercourse with men. But at night, over a stratus layer, all sense of the planet may disappear. You know that down below, beneath that heavenly blanket is the earth, factual and hard. But it's an intellectual knowledge; it's a knowledge tucked away in the mind; not a feeling that penetrates the body.