Parachutes Quotes
65 quotes by 58 authors
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely…
— Valentina Tereshkova
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Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to…
— Jack Handey
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Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.
— James Dewar
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When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told…
— Yuri Gagarin
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I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
— Charles Lindbergh
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Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open.
— Harvey Mackay
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My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
— Tahereh Mafi
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Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep…
— Leroy Chiao
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I'm telling you, just attach a big parachute TO THE PLANE ITSELF! Is anyone listening to me?!
— Jack Handey
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Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all…
— Cees Nooteboom
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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
— Andrea Gibson
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If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute…
— Steve Harvey
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All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's…
— Delmore Schwartz
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I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open…
— Eric Allin Cornell
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The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some…
— David Simon
Who Wrote These Parachutes Quotes
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