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Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open. ~ Harvey MacKay
Parachutes quotes by Harvey MacKay
The concrete highway was edged with a mat of tangled, broken, dry grass, and the grass heads were heavy with oat beards to catch on a dog's coat, and foxtails to tangle in a horse's fetlocks, and clover burrs to fasten in sheep's wool; sleeping life waiting to be spread and dispersed, every seed armed with an appliance of dispersal, twisting darts and parachutes for the wind, little spears and balls of tiny thorns, and all waiting for animals and for the wind, for a man's trouser cuff or the hem of a woman's skirt, all passive but armed with appliances of activity, still, but each possessed of the anlage of movement. ~ John Steinbeck
Parachutes quotes by John Steinbeck
There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle ... You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear. ~ Frank Borman
Parachutes quotes by Frank Borman
I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts. ~ John Zakour
Parachutes quotes by John Zakour
Minds are like parachutes, they don't function unless they are open. ~ Philip C. Baridon
Parachutes quotes by Philip C. Baridon
I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen. ~ Suzanne Collins
Parachutes quotes by Suzanne Collins
In an essay titled A View From the Front Line, Jencks described her experience with cancer as like being woken up midflight on a jumbo jet and then thrown out with a parachute into a foreign landscape without a map:
"There you are, the future patient, quietly progressing with other passengers toward a distant destination when, astonishingly (Why me?) a large hole opens in the floor next to you. People in white coats appear, help you into a parachute and - no time to think - out you go.
"You descend. You hit the ground ... But where is the enemy? What is the enemy? What is it up to? ... No road. No compass. No map. No training. Is there something you should know and don't?
"The white coats are far, far away, strapping others into their parachutes. Occasionally they wave but, even if you ask them, they don't know the answers. They are up there in the Jumbo, involved with parachutes, not map-making. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Parachutes quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee
In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not. ~ Claudio Ranieri
Parachutes quotes by Claudio Ranieri
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. ~ Charles A. Lindbergh
Parachutes quotes by Charles A. Lindbergh
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life. ~ Sebastian Junger
Parachutes quotes by Sebastian Junger
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~ Robert Fulghum
Parachutes quotes by Robert Fulghum
We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow. ~ Margaret Atwood
Parachutes quotes by Margaret Atwood
Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing. ~ Robert G. Allen
Parachutes quotes by Robert G. Allen
What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
Parachutes quotes by Ellen DeGeneres
Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. ~ Benny Hill
Parachutes quotes by Benny Hill
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. ~ Cathy Rigby
Parachutes quotes by Cathy Rigby
Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed. ~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Parachutes quotes by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The ragged cat drags its belly across where the grass is short and the stones are sharp, under the lilacs that have no flowers. The flower smell is gone and the white falls off the trees. Seeds, Lark says, little seeds with parachutes to fly them, Termite, all in your hair, and she runs her fingers through his hair, saying how long and how pretty. He wants the grass long and strong, sounding whispers when it moves, but the mower cuts it. The mower cuts and cuts like a yowling knife. He hears the mower cutting and smells the grass pouring out all over the ground, the green stain so sharp and wet it spills and spills. The mower cuts everything away and Nick Tucci follows the mower, cutting and cutting while the orange cat growls low to move its soft parts across the chipped sharp stones. Deep under the lilacs where no one sees, the orange cat waits for the roar to stop. ~ Jayne Anne Phillips
Parachutes quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips
I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open. ~ Rickson Gracie
Parachutes quotes by Rickson Gracie
I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand." ~ Scott Raab
Parachutes quotes by Scott Raab
Where wealth and status are concerned, shit isn't supposed to be hard. Ivies are known for "grade inflation" - though there is a lot of work, the reward for a mediocre job at completing it is still usually an A. In any given corporation, the higher the role and pay, the less that person actually does. CEOs who get fired for sucking at their jobs and losing a shit-ton of money are often given multi-million dollar "golden parachutes." It was kinda the same with this frat; we were the best, so we did the least. ~ A.D. Aliwat
Parachutes quotes by A.D. Aliwat
Minds, like parachutes, work only when open. ~ James Dewar
Parachutes quotes by James Dewar
Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes. ~ Cees Nooteboom
Parachutes quotes by Cees Nooteboom
During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died. ~ Sebastian Junger
Parachutes quotes by Sebastian Junger
No one was a stranger in that crowd. We had all heard FDR's "Fireside Chats" and Edward R. Murrow's "This is London," listened to H.V. Kaltenborn for the evening news, and watched the newsreels before the movies. We'd read Ernie Pyle's columns, planted victory gardens, written V mails, sent care packages, gathered phonograph records for the USO, given up nylon for parachutes, saved bacon grease for explosives, and turned in tin foil, saved from gum wrappers, for ammunition. Most of all, we'd prayed that our loved ones would be safe. ~ Marjorie Hart
Parachutes quotes by Marjorie Hart
My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out. ~ Ryan Lochte
Parachutes quotes by Ryan Lochte
I always wonder about raindrops.
I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It's like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn't seem to care where the contents fall, doesn't seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors.
I am a raindrop.
My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab. ~ Tahereh Mafi
Parachutes quotes by Tahereh Mafi
Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open. ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Parachutes quotes by Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth. ~ Tahereh Mafi
Parachutes quotes by Tahereh Mafi
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before. ~ Valentina Tereshkova
Parachutes quotes by Valentina Tereshkova
If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life. ~ Jack Canfield
Parachutes quotes by Jack Canfield
Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes. ~ Jim Barksdale
Parachutes quotes by Jim Barksdale
When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it. ~ Matthew Parris
Parachutes quotes by Matthew Parris
As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway. ~ Demetri Martin
Parachutes quotes by Demetri Martin
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back. ~ Eric Allin Cornell
Parachutes quotes by Eric Allin Cornell
When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Parachutes quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it ~ Paulo Coelho
Parachutes quotes by Paulo Coelho
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