Charles Lindbergh
FameRank: 8

"With Anne Morrow Lindbergh":

Lindbergh kidnapping/Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.Jon LindberghLand Morrow LindberghAnne Lindbergh/Anne Spencer Lindbergh (Perrin)Scott LindberghReeve Lindbergh (Brown)"With Brigitte Hesshaimer:"Dyrk HesshaimerAstrid Hesshaimer BouteuilDavid Hesshaimer "With Marietta Hesshaimer:"Vago HesshaimerChristoph Hesshaimer."With Valeska" (surname unknown):a son (name unknown)a daughter (name unknown)/ signature = Charles Lindbergh signature.svg

}}

"Charles Augustus Lindbergh" (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed "Slim", "Lucky Lindy", and "The Lone Eagle", was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.

If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous aviators! More Charles Lindbergh on Wikipedia.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

402

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

276

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

268

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

267

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

242

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

237

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

212

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

209

Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.

141

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

138

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

120