Jerrie Cobb famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.
-- Jerrie Cobb

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I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.
-- Jerrie Cobb

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I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.
-- Jerrie Cobb

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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.
To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

Jerrie Cobb famous quotes

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