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Amelia Earhart
(24 Jul 1897 - 2 Jul 1937)
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Science Quotes by Amelia Earhart (11 quotes)
“I think I’d like to learn to fly”, I told the family casually … “Not a bad idea”, said my father just as casually. “When do you start?”
— Amelia Earhart
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
— Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that
Life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.
Life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.
— Amelia Earhart
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the restless day,
And count it fair.
For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the restless day,
And count it fair.
— Amelia Earhart
I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any [medieval] code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.
— Amelia Earhart
In soloing—as in other activities—it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. Almost every beginner hops off with a whoop of joy, though he is likely to end his flight with something akin to the D.T.’s.
— Amelia Earhart
Looking back now, however, I can see certain threads in what I did that were fully as important
in leading me to aviation as being mechanical perhaps was. There is the thread of my father’s being a railroad man and the many trips we had together—by which I discovered the fascination of new people and new places. There is the thread of liking all kinds of sports and games and of not being afraid to try those that some of my elders in those days looked upon as being only for boys. There is the thread of liking to experiment—perhaps this thread is the same as the one I have just mentioned—and of the something inside me that has always liked to try new things. There they all are, weaving in and out and here and there through the years before aviation and I got together.
— Amelia Earhart
Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—and occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. Some such consideration was a contributing reason for my wanting to do what I so much wanted to do.
— Amelia Earhart
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.
— Amelia Earhart
Perhaps the greatest joy of flying is the magnificence of the view. … Colors stand out and the shades of the earth, unseen from below, form an endless magic carpet. If anyone really wishes to see the seasons’ changes, he should fly. Autumn turns its most flaming leaves upward and spring hints its coming first for birds and aviators.
— Amelia Earhart
The most effective way to do it is to do it.
— Amelia Earhart
See also:
- 24 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Earhart's birth.
- Amelia Earhart - the first woman to fly the Atlantic
- Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, by Mike Campbell. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Amelia Earhart.