Gene Roddenberry Quotes

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

I love flying.

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

A plane is of no use without the man or woman who flies it!

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

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.

There's something just magical about flight. Period.

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

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

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

I love flying planes.

You've never lived till you've flown!

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.

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.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.