"As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?"

--

Source : Interview with George Negus on "George Negus Tonight", March 8, 2004.

Nancy Bird Walton

#Mother Quotes #Book Quotes #Climbing Quotes