#parachute

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

— James Dewar

#like #minds #only #open #parachutes

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

#allow #budget #did #duty #falklands

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

— Rhona Mitra

#bored #got #hanging #i #next

My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#blew #i #into #out #parachute

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

— Margaret Mead

#first #first time #get #jump #life

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#buildings #equivalent #guess #i #jumps

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#bed #breaking #climb #cracking #getting

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#complain #jumps #make #nobody #parachute

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 sure about the success of my new adventure. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#adventure #besides #club #completely #hard

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ↗

— William Stafford

#everything #i #out #parachute #woven