Quotes from Charles A. Lindbergh

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground—seconds away—thousands of miles away.

I saw a fleet of fishing boats…. I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland.They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

We (that's my ship and I) took off rather suddenly. We had a report somewhere around 4 o'clock in the afternoon before that the weather would be fine, so we thought we would try it.

I live only in the moment in this strange, unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Wheter outwardly or inwardly, wheter in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?