A Gift of Wings Quotes

“And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.”
― Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings

“Time means nothing.Time is just the way we measure the gaps between not knowing something and knowing it or not doing something and doing it.”
― Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings

“Finally I came to think that may be everything we need to know,ever,about anything,is already within us,waiting till we call for it.”
― Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings

“In the quiet, I talked to my friend, who happened to be a T-33, and asked point-blank the questions I could never answer.

'What are you, airplane? What is it about you and all your wide family that has made so many men leave all they know and come to you? Why do they waste good human love and concern on you who are nothing but so many pounds of steel and aluminum and gasoline and hydraulic fluid?”
― Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings

“It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned — when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.”
― Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings

“The higher you fly, the farther you see and less important are the affairs and crises of those who cling to the ground.”
― Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings

“An airplane's soul, which [the pilot] can never see or touch, is something that her pilot senses: an eagerness to fly; a little bit of performance that according to the charts should not be there, but is; a spirit behind the bullet-holed mass of torn metal with three propellers feathered, touching down on an English airfield. Not the metal, but the soul of an airplane is what her pilot wants to fly, and the reason he paints the name on her cowling. And with that soul, all planes have an immortality that you can feel when you walk onto any airport.”
― Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings

“No cualquier hombre (permítanme una restricción y cierto romanticismo) es capaz de volar, sino aquel que siente que volar es su vida, que sabe que el cielo no es un lugar de trabajo o de diversión, sino que es su casa.”
― Richard Bach, El don de volar

“¿Qué hacemos en el aire? Podríamos decir que practicando lo que significa estar vivo.”
― Richard Bach, El don de volar

“Es cierto que hay cientos de pilotos que vuelan sin temor, en medio de oscuras noches y sobre kilómetros de neblina, pero su tranquilidad no proviene del saber y del control sino de una fe ciega en ese conjunto de piezas de metal que”
― Richard Bach, El don de volar

“No importa quién sea usted ni la edad que tenga ni dónde viva; si lo desea, volará. Parece extraño, pero es así.”
― Richard Bach, El don de volar