Charles Lindbergh Life Quotations

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?

My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?