GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Sally Ride

There are 4 quotes matching Sally Ride in the collection:

I can’t remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

Sally Ride

Quoted in 1995 book Women Aviators.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

Raymonde de Laroche

First licensed woman pilot, regards receiving her license, 8 March 1910. Quoted in 2009 book Women Aviators: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space.

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For someone who’s crazy about being in the air, dying down on the ground is something of an abdication.

Maryse Bastié

French aviator who set several international records for female aviators during the 1930s. She did die in an airplane crash, 6 July 1951. Quoted in the 2013 book Women Aviators: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space.

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

Sally Ride

To Space and Back, 1986.

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