Why force one’s body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. (ang.)
Źródło: Jack Broughton, Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot’s Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs, Zenith Imprint, 2008, s. 15.
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Charles Lindbergh słynne cytaty
„Gdybym miał wybrać, wolałbym ptaki niż samoloty.”
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. (ang.)
Źródło: James Giblin, Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997, s. 191.
Źródło: Nieprzyjemne prawdy. Aforyzmy naszych czasów, wybór i tłum. Henryk Zdanowski, KAW, 1987, s. 10.
„Prawdziwa wolność leży w dzikości, nie w cywilizacji.”
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. (ang.)
Źródło: The Greatest Quotations of All-Time, oprac. Anthony St Peter, Xlibris Corporation, 2010, s. 130.
„Czy to nie dziwne, że najmniej mówimy o rzeczach, o których najwięcej myślimy?”
Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most? (ang.)
Źródło: The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, s. 417.
Charles Lindbergh: Cytaty po angielsku
Forword to The Gentle Tasady : A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest (1975) by John Nance, a book on the Tasaday of Mindanao (7 April 1974)
Thoughts on his first parachute jump in The Spirit of St Louis (1953)
“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”
"Is Civilization Progress?" in Reader's Digest (July 1964)
As quoted in Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero (2002) by Von Hardesty
"Is Civilization Progress?" in Reader's Digest (July 1964)
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”
As quoted in Lindbergh (1998) by A. Scott Berg, p. 510
Aviation, Geography, and Race (1939)
New York Times Magazine (23 May 1971)
