Quotes by Charles Lindbergh

“I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.”

“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.”

“Isnt it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”

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

“I never had a dull moment at Detroit.”

Isnt it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.

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

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

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

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.