“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.” PeopleYearsLittlesSaidI CanCountryCan DoFourWonderfulHappenedBrotherPeriodsThings HappenHeyParisFour YearsPilotsAirplaneMarvelousFlewTime PeriodsMarvelous ThingsWright Brothers Author:Burt Rutan
“There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.” PeopleTwoCitiesNew YorkBrotherFlightBoardsNew York CityAirplaneClevelandWright Brothers Author:David Letterman
“When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.” WayProcessBrotherInnovationSillyPlanesVehicleCountingPassengersGreat SuccessAircraftWright Brothers Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.” MenWorldChildrenIdeasEyeAmericaBornQualityExampleBrotherAchievementMen And WomenFruitEsteemInitiativeAdvancementTenacityInitiateGreatest SuccessWright BrothersChildren Of Men Author:B. C. Forbes
“I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.” PeopleYearsFirstsMomentsMotherOpportunityNamesGivenBornBrotherMoonLifetimeFortunateRight TimeRight PlaceFlewWright Brothers Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.” FirstsDoneBrotherNewspapersFlightReportersRookiesWright Brothers Author:Edward R. Murrow
“Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.” PaintingBrotherBecomingAmbitionConventionalRepresentationWright Brothers Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” CountryBrotherAirplaneRoad TripWright Brothers Author:Bill Engvall
“The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.” FirstsHeartBrotherWingsFlightBoeingTransplantsWright BrothersHeart TransplantBoeing 747 Author:C. Walton Lillehei
“I love visiting the Air and Space Museum. It always blows my mind how far we've come from the Wright Brothers in 1906 to modern space travel.” MindSpaceAirModernBrotherBlowMuseumsVisitingSpace TravelWright BrothersHow Far We've Come Author:Ryan Merchant
“America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Once we start rolling, we're pretty formidable. And the incompetence of the government is so massive that even a moderately good executive could regain much ground pretty rapidly. Donald Trump is a very good executive.” CountryGovernmentAmericaSpiritBrotherTrumpResourcesMarkBillsVery GoodEnormousExecutivesMassiveGatesRollingIncompetenceFormidableAmerican SpiritZuckerbergWright Brothers Author:Newt Gingrich
“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.” MotivationalImpossiblePossibilityBrotherAchievementDeterminationScreensSmokeImpossibilityFlewPossible And ImpossibleWright Brothers Author:Charles Kettering
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” DoePhilosophyFactsHumorFunnyScienceInterestingBrotherGeniusLaughterIntelligenceCosmosLaughedClownDoing YouColumbusFunny LeadershipImplyingSmile And LaughPale Blue DotWright Brothers Author:Carl Sagan