Skydiving Quotes

• If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

  Henny Youngman

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• My time on this world is limited, but the things I can do with that time are not.

  Jeb Corliss

  Time, World, Limits

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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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• Love is like skydiving without a parachute.

  Lois Greiman

  Love Is, Love Is Like, Parachutes

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

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• I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Ideas

  "Felix Baumgartner: 'I hope I can make fear cool'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Rocks, Play, San Diego

  "Neil Patrick Harris pens his Hollywood Survival Guide for this week's cover". www.ew.com. September 22, 2011.

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• If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Firsts, Succeed

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

  Rick Mercer

  Weekend, Nuts, Long

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Adventure, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.

  Dean Keith Simonton

  Thrill, Panic, Descent

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• Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

  Geoff Johns

  Everyday Things, Long, Height

  Source: collider.com

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• I can be a little bit outrageous. I can be a lot of things. I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I love to go out there and do kind of crazy stuff which is slightly outrageous, like bungee jumping, skydiving, surfing and that sort of stuff. But I also like to just chill with my friends and go and see movies and do normal things.

  Orlando Bloom

  Crazy, Jumping, Surfing

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• If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

  Dan Poynter

  Safe, Waiver, Parachutes

  Dan Poynter (1997). “Expert Witness Handbook: Tips and Techniques for the Litigation Consultant”, Para Pub

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• I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, Self, House

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• People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

  Aaron Stanford

  Heart, People, Safe

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• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  Zachary Levi

  Jumping, Motorcycle, Done

  "Zachary Levi Interview - CHUCK". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. August 8, 2008.

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• I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

  Bridget Hall

  Magazines, Planes, Editorials

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• The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.

  Shay Mitchell

  Breakup, Love Is, My Boyfriend

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

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• I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Ideas, Near Death, Cautious

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• Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

  Brock Yates

  Cutting, Doctors, Guy

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• And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?

  Douglas Adams

  Names, Needs, Hey

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• I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

  Mandy Moore

  Choices, Parent, Overcoming

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• Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

  Dean Koontz

  Sex, Fun, Gambling

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

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• I’m definitely a girly-girl and I love playing with fashion, but at the same time I will go skydiving with you tomorrow.

  Shay Mitchell

  Girl, Fashion, Tomorrow

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