Elinor Smith Quotes

United States, Aviator
August 17, 1911 – March, 19, 2010.

Elinor Smith (August 17, 1911 – March 19, 2010) was a pioneering American aviator, once known as "The Flying Flapper of Freeport". She was the first woman test pilot for both Fairchild and Bellanca (now AviaBellanca). She was the youngest licensed pilot in the world at age 16.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Elinor Smith
- People
- Long
- Attention
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.

Elinor Smith
- Good
- Bad
- Environment

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

Elinor Smith
- Children
- Mother
- Puppet