Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am confident we will have it (Concorde) back in the air by late summer.

I am concerned about the air we breathe and the water we drink. If overfishing continues, if pollution continues, many of these species will disappear off the face of the earth.

Richard Shelby

I am disappointed that the Air Force did not choose Selma as the site for their Introductory Flight Training program. I believe Selma is an excellent location for IFT, as it meets all the education and training requirements set forth by the Air Force.

Jim Doyle

I am deeply disappointed by this decision from the BRAC Commission, ... ... What disappoints me most about the decision is that the U.S. Air Force will be losing so many highly qualified people.

I am convinced that before the end of this decade, we will see preparations for China to build its first indigenous aircraft carrier.

I am happy that Lockheed Martin will participate in the air show in Plovdiv and will show the Bulgarian public the superb performance of the F-16.

Manmohan Singh

I am happy to announce that our government has cleared the purchase of 43 aircraft from Airbus.

Lyndon Johnson

I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first.

William Simms

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air

Craig Cook

We've seen a definite increase in clients who just enjoy being in snow country. They've discovered that a resort vacation in the mountains offers a lot of things and that air travel is often a lot cheaper in winter than in summer.

Larry King

We've searched all the possible areas by air and sea. Right now, it's mostly in the hands of the major crimes unit (which includes the missing persons unit), to follow up on any leads.

We've said all along that if rules regarding Love Field were changed, we would shift flights from D/FW Airport and vigorously compete for every customer at Love Field.

We very much regret having to reduce our schedule to allow for the late delivery of new aircraft from Boeing (BA) and the planned retirement of our older 737-200's in December.

Calvin Coolidge

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

Burt Rutan

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

Catherine Ponder

Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary to give regularly if we wish to receive regularly.

Carroll Shelby

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

Carol Browner

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak...

Carol Browner

Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

Alan Keyes

God's irony: that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb!

Al Gore

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

Al Gore

Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

Aimee Mann

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

Charles Churchill

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

Charles Churchill

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

Bono

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Barry Goldwater

I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.

Barbara Bush

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

Aristophanes

Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.

Edwidge Danticat

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

Edmund Burke

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

Eckhart Tolle

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Edward Ruscha

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.