Quotes of Charles Lindbergh - somelinesforyou

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

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing… ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ 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… ”

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Life changed after that jump…I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

“ It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

“ I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

“ What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun? ”

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Charles Lindbergh

“ 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? ”

- Charles Lindbergh
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