Richard Bach Quotes about Flying

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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

Richard Bach

Flying, Gulls, Facts

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Richard Bach

Flying, Gulls, Matter

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Bird, Flying

RICHARD BACH (1970). “JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL”

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Richard Bach

Ignorance, Skills, Flying

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Richard Bach

Home, Airplane, Flying

Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Richard Bach

Grief, Flying, Sorrow

When you're flying, an airplane doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care how much money you make or don't make. All it cares about is: How well do you fly? How well do you know the airplane? How well do you know the sky?

Richard Bach

Airplane, Sky, Flying

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Richard Bach

Airplane, Men, Flying

Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

Richard Bach

Adventure, Flying, Lovely

Richard Bach (2009). “Hypnotizing Maria”, p.57, Hampton Roads Publishing