Forrest Bird Quotes

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.