Parachutes Quotes

• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

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• Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Life Is Like, Firsts

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• I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Flying, Risk

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

  Robert G. Allen

  Fall, Safe, Down And

  Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (2005). “Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth”, Harmony

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• Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

  James Dewar

  Knowledge, Mind

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• I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

  William Stafford

  Kindness, Not Giving Up, Thoughtful

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• Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

  Scott Adams

  Needs, Needing Someone, Firsts

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• Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Motivational, Humorous

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• The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Inspirational, Fall, Air

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• Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

  Benny Hill

  Funny, Good Life, Military

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, My Heart

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.6, SCB Distributors

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• Love is like skydiving without a parachute.

  Lois Greiman

  Love Is, Love Is Like, Skydiving

  Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.94, Dell

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• I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love, Fall, Made

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.73, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Jumping, Firsts

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Inspirational, Education, Attitude

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

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• I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

  Rhona Mitra

  Air, Bored, Want

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• If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.

  Jacques Plante

  Stupid, Thinking, Nhl

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• Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open.

  Harvey Mackay

  Mind

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• The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

  Ken Curtis

  Roles, Brilliant, Realistic

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• You don't have to get it right the first time.

  Barbara Sher

  Time, Firsts, Action

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.177, Dell

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• I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

  John Zakour

  Men, Wings, Born

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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 it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

  Leroy Chiao

  Hurt, Different, Able

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• We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Use, Emergencies

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage it

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Games, Feelings

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