Jacqueline Cochran Quotes

#1. Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.

Wayne Allard

#2. 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 humans.

Jacqueline Cochran

#3. Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live ... but go higher - above the dust and water vapor - and the sky turns dark until one can see the stars at noon.

Jacqueline Cochran

#4. Mumbai is not a city, it's life...

Subhasis Das

#5. College baseball, I love it. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step.

Roger Clemens

#6. Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we're doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

Ann Romney

#7. I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.

Gerry Beckley

#8. I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

Jacqueline Cochran

#9. You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.

Daniel Handler

#10. To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Jacqueline Cochran

#11. You're absolutely perfect," I whisper. "It's all yours. If we do this, I'll be all yours." I smile at that. "You promise?" He suddenly cups my face and leans in to kiss me. "Forever. If we do this, you're mine, forever.

J.A. Huss

#12. Try to be careful, okay? You're the only niece I'm actually speaking to these days. I'm not in the mood to see you dead.

Seanan McGuire

#13. Imagine the feeling of catching yourself loving yourself without trying. It's like catching a sunset out of the corner of your eye. It will stop you.

Kamal Ravikant

#14. When a rainbow spreads across the sky it is reminding the world that beauty comes in all colors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Welcome back to the land of the living.

Kate Baxter

#16. I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Jacqueline Cochran

#17. Be persistent in good actions.

Muhammad

#18. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

Jacqueline Cochran

#19. Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

William Shenstone

#20. I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

Jacqueline Cochran

#21. God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.

Tyler Perry

#22. [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

#23. 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

#24. It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Jacqueline Cochran

#25. I'm not trying to change you, Maggie. I'm trying to love you.

Lexi Ryan