“There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.”

Source: The Wind Rises

Hocus Pocus (1990)

Les avions sont des jouets intéressants mais n'ont aucune utilité militaire
Said in 1911 as quoted Time : A Traveler's Guide (1998) by Clifford A. Pickover, p. 249

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wQ57od6lcY

The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
Context: He has been called an atheist, but atheist he was not. Paine believed in a supreme intelligence, as representing the idea which other men often express by the name of deity.
His Bible was the open face of nature, the broad skies, the green hills. He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the attacks on those creeds — or on persons devoted to them — have served to darken his memory, casting a shadow across the closing years of his life.
When Theodore Roosevelt termed Tom Paine a "dirty little atheist" he surely spoke from lack of understanding. It was a stricture, an inaccurate charge of the sort that has dimmed the greatness of this eminent American. But the true measure of his stature will yet be appreciated. The torch which he handed on will not be extinguished.

Jawel, het is Ffffriesland, gezien uit een vliegmasjien.
Quote of Gerrit Benner (early 1950's); as cited in 'Gerrit Benner geboeid door Friese wolkenluchten', Sytse Singelsma http://www.fryslan1.frl/2015/03/04/nieuwe-pagina/, 4 March 2015
Benner's stammering response, when young inhabitants of Leeuwarden criticized him on painting their Friesland as just one simple green surface
1950 - 1980

16 March, 2016
As President, 2016
Source: La Sexta Noticias http://www.lasexta.com/noticias/nacional/aplastante-logica-rajoy-carreteras-tienen-que-coches-aeropuertos-tienen-que-salir-aviones_2016031600396.html

Jace and Simon, pg. 171
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)