Quotes About Paratroopers

#1. his head burst in a blizzard of seeds that hung in the lamplight and drifted slowly to the ground like a tiny division of poison paratroopers.

Jeff VanderMeer

#2. I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

Gary Numan

#3. But the huge bowl of the sky remains untracked: no zeppelins, no bombers, no superhuman paratroopers, just the last songbirds returning from their winter homes, and the quicksilver winds of spring transmuting into the heavier, greener breezes of summer.

Anthony Doerr

#4. If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

Jeffrey Goldberg

#5. Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

Alan Cranston

#6. The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.

Bear Grylls

#7. It doesn't matter what religion you are. If you come to Israel you'll find history that will blow you away ... Everywhere we go we end each day saying, 'That was the most incredible day we've ever had.' It's been quite a trip.

Greg Grunberg

#8. I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Gustave Courbet

#9. 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

#10. My demon ate them. (Nick) What happened to the jocks? (Acheron) Riiiight. And I suppose the Big Bad Wolf will be coming in right behind you to finish up? Or is it the Gingerbread Man I need to fear? (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Leigh Hunt

#12. Her fingers dug into the doorframe she leaned on, hoping and praying that he would just step out of the shadows and kiss her the way he had done so often in her dreams.

Elaine White

#13. If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

Charles Spurgeon