Quotes About The Parachute Regiment

#1. 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

#2. I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

Scott Raab

#3. Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

David Bailey

#4. 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

#5. In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

Mark Burnett

#6. It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

Ellen DeGeneres

#7. The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

Fritz Weaver

#8. You can shine everywhere you are.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to violent flashes of recall, and then agitated you and made you unsure of what you knew and didn't know.

Anne Rice

#10. The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.

Heather King

#11. Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think.

William Berger

#12. It's so easy to be around people when everything is ... well ... easy. But the people who've been with you through thick and thin, who've seen you at your absolute worst, and who still want to hang out with you at the end of the day?
If that isn't family, I don't know what is.

Jacqueline E. Smith

#13. The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

Al-Ghazali

#14. In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human successes, but on how well we have loved.

San Juan De La Cruz

#15. I that please some, try all, both joy and terror
Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

William Shakespeare

#16. When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

L'Wren Scott

#17. The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.

Woody Guthrie

#18. We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

Nicolas Winding Refn