Harry Reasoner Quotes

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

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

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

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.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

I love flying.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

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

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization

More than electric lights, more than steam engines, more than telephones, more than automobiles, more even than the printing press, the airplane separated past from future. It had freed mankind from the earth and opened the skies.