I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky. . . . Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars.
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of t… - Jacqueline Cochran
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of t…
- Jacqueline Cochran
I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars. - Jacqueline Cochran
I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls. - Jacqueline Cochran
I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.
And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran
And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.
[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear. - Jacqueline Cochran
[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. - Jacqueline Cochran
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. - Jacqueline Cochran
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit. - Jacqueline Cochran
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.
In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with … - Jacqueline Cochran
In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with …
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