Oxygen Mask Quotes

#1. When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Now airlines charge for everything ... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen.

Ellen DeGeneres

#3. Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

Fareed Zakaria

#4. You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others ... It's a good metaphor for parenting

Amanda Peet

#5. The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask.

Andrew Davidson

#6. In the dance of life, pull down your own oxygen mask first, then take a deep breath and help everyone else. They'll thank you for it, believe me.

John C. Parkin

#7. Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.

Howard Graham Buffett

#8. 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children

Andrea O'Reilly

#9. The only person who should have control over your life is God. You're not super woman. Sometimes you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you can save anybody else.

Norma Jarrett

#10. If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!

Richard Simmons

#11. He's so ugly he should have to wear an oxygen mask.

Mickey Rivers

#12. Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.

Randy Pausch

#13. Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.

Jon Krakauer

#14. We're trained, in our culture, to take care of ourselves first. Even flight attendants tell you to put on your own oxygen mask before helping those around you. But they never tell you what happens afterwards. How do you live with yourself if you survive and the person next to you doesn't?

Tracy Weber

#15. On an airplane, you are always told to put on your own oxygen mask first. The same way in life, you need to take care of your health first. If you are not happy and healthy, you cannot make anyone else happy and healthy.

Rajashree Choudhury

#16. Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.

Suze Orman

#17. Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#18. Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.

Anthony Liccione

#19. I want to show that I can pitch well and get along with the guys in the locker room.'

Justin Verlander

#20. What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

William Golding

#21. Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

David Novak

#22. As well to clutch at the moon's reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind.

Robin Hobb

#23. Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

David Henry Hwang

#24. I'm just glad that I have this huge fan.

Petra Kvitova

#25. The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, if not as benefit-club, as votive sisterhood of some sort; and it walked still.

Thomas Hardy

#26. In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

H.L. Mencken

#27. We were using ether and oxygen as anaesthetic and she was particularly adept at holding her breath while the mask was on her face then returning suddenly to violent life when we thought she was asleep. We were both sweating when she finally went under.

James Herriot

#28. Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.

Brooke Fraser

#29. Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

Billy Bob Thornton

#30. So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Jeff Goodell

#31. You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said.
He smiled. "No."
"Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking."
"I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

Nicholas Sparks