Charles Lindbergh quote: "The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and ove...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expecte...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

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

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage poin...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

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

I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contrib...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost fe...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of ...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for mi...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond kno...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above ev...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

It was not the outer granduer of the Roman but the inner simplicity of the Christian that lived thro...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 pe...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, become...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
CHARLES LINDBERGH

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its m...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the s...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

I've had enough publicity for 15 lives.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

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

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

I never had a dull moment at Detroit.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expe...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

He makes fuzz come out of my bald patch!
CHARLES LINDBERGH

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

We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the e...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

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

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le B...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into t...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in G...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the groun...
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
CHARLES LINDBERGH

It was not the outer granduer of the Roman but the inner simplicity of the Christian that lived
CHARLES LINDBERGH

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disuni...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

It's too dangerous a journey to risk the cat's life.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of t...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elem...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into the cockpit and, minutes later, a black do...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but ...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfa...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond kno...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond k...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

A radical is one who speaks the truth.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its...
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH

For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You&#...
PETER LINDBERGH

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not ...
ANNE LINDBERGH

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are...
ANNE LINDBERGH

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between y...
ANNE LINDBERGH

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell o...
ANNE LINDBERGH

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE LINDBERGH

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE LINDBERGH

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
ANNE LINDBERGH

What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for ...
ANNE LINDBERGH

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone
ANNE LINDBERGH

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass a...
ANNE LINDBERGH

People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big...
PETER LINDBERGH

My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permissi...
PETER LINDBERGH

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this centu...
PETER LINDBERGH

Life without risk is not worth living.
CHUCK LINDBERGH

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. W...
PETER LINDBERGH

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I mu...
PETER LINDBERGH

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else....
PETER LINDBERGH

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposel...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. T...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can expre...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposel...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep al...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being c...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasure...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in d...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjo...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One could sit still and look at life from the air; that was it. And I was conscious again of the fun...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels ma...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep desired, long-awaited spring.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

It is not physical solitude that actually separates one from others; not physical isolation, but spi...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting o...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the tr...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. W...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like gl...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when eve...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping,...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between y...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand de...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, bal...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empt...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all w...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are mo...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morro...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to mo...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up w...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are m...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Charles is life itself-pure life, force, like sunlight-and it is for this that I married him and thi...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In l...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no sha...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every y...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are m...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass a...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, th...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

If one sets aside time
for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engageme...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to c...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can expres...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine cultur...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely ma...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is love...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of int...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is th...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I w...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet ne...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell o...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

A Good Relationship Has a Pattern Like a DanceA good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can expres...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour.. ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposel...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical close...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The most exhausting thing in life is insincerity
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning sun can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like wri...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of soc...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasure...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Giving opens the way for receiving.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS

How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

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The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

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