Parachuting Quotes

#1. Okay. Parachuting on its own? Maybe not so terrifying. Parachuting into a Mexican jungle at night while strapped to an angry Uchben man named Brutus? An unimaginable nightmare that would haunt my every waking moment for the rest of my life.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#2. The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

Andre Michel Lwoff

#3. I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.

Steve Truglia

#4. Olivia imagined a D-day-style invasion of the island, gardeners with saws and shovels parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches - and were being liberated from the thorny or flowery embrace of climbing vines, deratted, reroofed, fixed up, and condoized. Her apartment

Neal Stephenson

#5. I was sitting on a plane that is traveling towards Seattle. And the guy next to me turns and says to me Hey, you going to Seattle?. Nope, San Francisco ... I'll be parachuting off in about an hour. Here's your sign!

Bill Engvall

#6. Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.

Nancy Thayer

#7. I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Bear Grylls

#8. Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Dan Quisenberry

#9. It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

Ovid

#10. Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

Mark Twain

#11. In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

Alan Hansen

#12. Outward appearances mean everything.

Simone Elkeles

#13. Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

Sandra Dee

#14. According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

Nancy Pearcey

#15. Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.

Jennifer Young

#16. It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

Tracey Emin

#17. I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

Bre Pettis

#18. I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on single-camera comedies or sitcoms, or anything like that, but it certainly has been a part of my career.

Brooke Nevin

#19. It is just to challenge that which is unfair. Never give up.

Luther Stidham

#20. I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

Teresa Of Avila

#21. Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal.

Isaac Asimov

#22. Brahma emerged from the right side of Mahesa, Vishnu from the left and Nilarudra from his heart. In the beginning, intoning AUM, Sadasiva created the universe. Siva is Pranava and Pranava is Siva.

Ramesh Menon