Geriatric Flight

There is no flying without wings. - French Proverb

I'm not aging, I'm marinating. - Unknown

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. - Lord Kelvin

Aging wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur

The wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. - Annette Funicello

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. - Ralph Richardson

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. - Keith Richards

I'm aging like fine wine. I'm getting complex and fruity. - Unknown

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. - Richard J. Ferris

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. - Faith Hill

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott

Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying... Spring Flight - Eileen Granfors

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. - Judith Regan

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. - Chinese Proverb

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. - Al Gore

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away. - Stephen Hawking

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. - Robert Frost

Aging is the extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. - David Bowie

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. - Doug Larson

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do. - Golda Meir

Nothing can move a man who is paid by the hour; how sweet the flight of time seems to his calm mind. - Charles D Warner

Caesar dreamed that he was flying above the clouds, and now that he was clasping the hand of Jupiter. - Suetonius

I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell. - Michael Moore

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. - Stella Young

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

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

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? - Unknown

Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight or flight mode. - Melanie Haiken

A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded, "Take me to the Canaries." - Bob Monkhouse

The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, "Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?" - Robin Williams

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know so it goes flying anyway. - Mary Kay Ash

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? - George Carlin

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle. - Neil Armstrong

Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there’s no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground. - Jarod Kintz

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo