GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Amelia Earhart

There are 52 quotes matching Amelia Earhart in the collection:

Riding trains or motor cars is simply a waste of time.

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart Here to Lecture on Recent Flight, Kansas City (KS) Journal newspaper, 18 February 1935.

I think we may safely anticipate that there will be floating airdromes strung across the Atlantic when [transatlantic] service is started.

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart Says Cheap Airplanes Are Near, Boston Daily Globe newspaper, 7 March 1935.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty. The dramas of the clouds, the glory of the stars, the charm of landscapes and the wonders of the waters and skies have, to me, an irresistible appeal

Amelia Earhart

Quoted in Two Ocean Hops Traced, Los Angeles Times newspaper, 31 March 1935.

Worry and fatigue are relentless enemies to good judgment.

Amelia Earhart

My Flight from Hawaii, National Geographic magazine, May 1935.

And the day is coming when we can fold up the wings of our planes upon landing and taxi up the street to our garages.

Amelia Earhart

Christian Science Monitor newspaper, 16 January 1936.

It was a night of stars. Stars hung outside my cockpit window near enough to touch.

Amelia Earhart

Writting about flying from Hawaii to California. She was the first person to complete this flight solo. Last Flight, 1937.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince ne that the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

Amelia Earhart

Last Flight, 1937.

When I go, I’d like best to go in my plane, quickly.

Amlia Earhart

Last Flight, 1937.

I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it. Anyway when I have finished this job, I mean to give up long-distance stunt flying.

Amelia Earhart

Departing from Los Angeles, California, for Florida on 21 May 1937. Start of her last flight.

We are on the line of position 157-337 … We are running north and south.

Amelia Earhart

Last received radio transmission, while searching for Howland Island, morning of 2 July 1937.

For someone who’s crazy about being in the air, dying down on the ground is something of an abdication.

Maryse Bastié

French aviator who set several international records for female aviators during the 1930s. She did die in an airplane crash, 6 July 1951. Quoted in the 2013 book Women Aviators: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space.

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940’s to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, ‘Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.’

Col. Eileen Collins USAF

Television interview 100 Years of Great women, on ABC with Barbara Walters, 30 April 1999.

See three other Eileen Collins great aviation quotes.

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