The best Quotes by Orville Wright

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate what ever aroused curiosity.

It was the first time in the history of the world that a machine carrying a man and driven by a motor had lifted itself from the ground in free flight.

We wrote to a number of the best known automobile manufacturers in an endeavor to secure a motor for the new machine. Not receiving favorable answers from any of these we proceeded to design a motor of our own.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, "pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio."

Biden has won so many times in Michigan now.
He's legally required to change his name to Ohio State.

There's nothing wrong with Ohio
Except the snow and the rain

East Coast style + Midwest charm = Ohio girl

Coming from southeast Ohio it's a very impoverished area and the poverty rate is almost two times the national average.

Ohio girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Ohio.

If you don't like the weather in Southern Ohio, just wait 15 minutes.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I can't wait to walk down the aisle and hear those magic words: "this is your captain speaking".

Catch flights, not feelings!

Michael's like a movie on a plane. You know, it's not great, but it's something to watch.

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.

75% of the Earth's surface is ocean. So divers live on a much bigger planet.