Glider Quotes

You only get one shot at it since we are only a big glider. - Paul Hill

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed. - Alan Shepard

The air to a glider pilot is a reality...He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends. - Philip Wills

So while I've been tied up with my balloons and my gliders, I've lost considerable ground in terms of maintaining longevity in sailing records. - Steve Fossett

It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland. - Denene Millner

I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot. - Paul Nurse

I almost fell off the elliptical glider. So many emotions, which I had suppressed for so long, hit me. Pain, frustration, sadness n it was very unsettling, very overwhelming. - Anna Madorsky

Her stride frequency is so fast. She can turn her legs over probably twice or three times as fast as the glider or the girls with the long legs. You would think she's working harder than them, but she's not. I think that's one of her talents. - Michael Lawson

Gliders, sailplanes, they are wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. - Neil Armstrong