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- Nov 07, 2020
Airplane Quotes
Takeoffs, turbulence, and the thrill of getting airborne.
This set opens with an oddly specific pre-flight routine before widening into a proud milestone: being the first in one's family to ever board a plane. Related reading sits under Fly quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Paris, Texas, okay! I remember looking up and just dreaming to one day make it on an airplane.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.
- Pilot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.
- Amputated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends meet, Dee, a friend of my mom's from Lockheed, moved in. She was a lovely person and helped with our care for many years.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020