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  • #1
    Amelia Earhart
    “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #2
    Amelia Earhart
    “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #3
    Amelia Earhart
    “Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #4
    Amelia Earhart
    “The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #5
    Amelia Earhart
    “Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #6
    Amelia Earhart
    “Adventure is worthwhile.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #7
    Amelia Earhart
    “the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many.
    i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #8
    Amelia Earhart
    “As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #9
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #10
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #11
    Eoin Colfer
    “Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.”
    Eoin Colfer, Airman

  • #12
    Bob Bello
    “The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!”
    Bob Bello, Sci-fi Almanac, 2010: An Anthology of Short Stories

  • #13
    Wilbur Wright
    “The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.”
    Wilbur Wright

  • #14
    Hayao Miyazaki
    “But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.”
    Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises

  • #15
    Anne Carson
    “[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain!
    Anne Carson, Short Talks

  • #16
    David Lodge
    “To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straining against its brakes, prepares for takeoff. The very danger in the situation is inseparable from the exhilaration it yields. You are strapped into your seat now, there is no way back, you have delivered yourself into the power of modern technology. You might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
    David Lodge, Small World

  • #17
    David Lodge
    “Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's always the hope that we'll find it abroad”
    David Lodge, Small World

  • #18
    David Lodge
    “It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces”
    David Lodge, Small World

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #20
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #21
    Jack Kerouac
    “I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #22
    Jack Kerouac
    “I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #23
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

  • #24
    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #25
    Augustine of Hippo
    “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
    St. Augustine of Hippo

  • #26
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”
    Roy T. Bennett

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    “I have one dream: I want to get my jet pilot license, and take my jet to 40 000 feet, look down, and realise how small we are. Not for the kick of the G's but just to get the feeling of just for once flying above humanity.”
    Wouter Van Gastel

  • #30
    Ernest K. Gann
    “I sit far back in my seat, my right foot braced comfortably against the instrument panel, listening to the steady thrumming of the engines, content to reflect that I have at least come a long way since my barnstorming days. Not so long ago, in a rock-fenced field nearby, a young man named Blauvelt stepped away from a sputtering biplane and first sent me into the sky alone.”
    Ernest K. Gann



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