Parachute Quotes

“The Everlasting Staircase"
Jeffrey McDaniel

When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live,
my first thought was: can't she postpone her exit

from this planet for a week? I've got places to do,
people to be. Then grief hit between the ribs,

said disappear or reappear more fully. so I boarded
a red eyeball and shot across America,

hoping the nurses had enough quarters to keep
the jukebox of Grandma's heart playing. She grew up

poor in Appalachia. And while world war II
functioned like Prozac for the Great Depression,

she believed poverty was a double feature,
that the comfort of her adult years was merely

an intermission, that hunger would hobble back,
hurl its prosthetic leg through her window,

so she clipped, clipped, clipped -- became the Jacques
Cousteau of the bargain bin, her wetsuit

stuffed with coupons. And now --pupils fixed, chin
dangling like the boots of a hanged man --

I press my ear to her lampshade-thin chest
and listen to that little soldier march toward whatever

plateau, or simply exhaust his arsenal of beats.
I hate when people ask if she even knew I was there.

The point is I knew, holding the one-sided
conversation of her hand. Once I believed the heart

was like a bar of soap -- the more you use it,
the smaller it gets; care too much and it'll snap off

in your grasp. But when Grandma's last breath
waltzed from that room, my heart opened

wide like a parachute, and I realized she didn't die.
She simply found a silence she could call her own.”
― Jeffrey McDaniel

“We all make mistakes.
Mine was falling madly in love and forgetting to pack a parachute.”
― Michael Faudet, Bitter Sweet Love

“I’m passing the bar
Where you first got in my car
I’m not ashamed to admit
That it’s you I won’t forget

I saved your cigarettes and
Bad habits I regret
But the hours flew by like clouds
Whenever I had you around

Parachute lover
Take me away
From the plane that went crashing
And the earth that’s in flames

Saving you is saving me
High above the redwood trees
But down below I see shadows
And parachute debris

We're drifting like children
Along for the ride
Each time we find love
Another parachute arrives

Our madness will burn
As bright as the sun
And I’ll keep finding lovers
But you were the one”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3

“That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli, Also Known as Armchair Detective

“Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Joining a gang is like sky diving without a parachute. Oh, at first it’s all fun, as you take on gravity in a thrilling and exhilarating free fall towards earth. The truth is, anything that is risky and dangerous always starts out as fun. But the odds are always stacked in gravity’s favor, for you will eventually come face to face with the earth, and mother earth always wins those battles. The same thing can be said about being in a gang.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.”
― Christine Granville

“Use every person's skill set to the fullest. Both optimists and pessimists contribute. An optimist invents the hot air balloon, and a pessimist invents the parachute." - Ramesh Lohia and Surbhi Lohia, consultants, Six Sigma, KaizeniSixSigmaKaizen. In Quality Quotes, Sep 1, 2016, Knowledge Center, ASQ [ AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY]”
― Ramesh Lohia and Surbhi Lohia

“Intelligence without wisdom is like a parachute without a ripcord. You might have everything that you need, but you have nothing that you can use.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Religion is like a parachute. It does not let us fly, but it helps to get us down in the ditch.”
― Debasish Mridha

“There really should be a legal requirement for skydiving customers to be fully informed about the age and failure history of the parachute that they are using prior to the jump.”
― Steven Magee

“I did a tandem free fall skydive from 10,000 feet with Greg Hunter the day before he was killed. After the jump he informed me that the parachute had tangled after deployment and he had to untangle it. He said it had been tangling frequently.”
― Steven Magee

“When the parachute opens, it's this incredible feeling... You float slowly towards solid ground. And when you land, it's like you're someone brand new. You're pure. I'm convinced it's like confession for the Catholics. You should all give it a try.”
― Jason, Why Are You Doing This?

“Suicide is as easy as not pulling the ripcord on the parachute.”
― Steven Magee

“Politics is falling off of a cliff without a parachute while claiming that the first isn’t happening and the second is unnecessary. And as soon as they hit the ground, they're telling the paramedics the same thing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Pull the ripcord on the past!”
― Steven Magee

“When the bottom falls out and you’re in a free-fall, you can certainly pull the ripcord of blame. However, blame never packed a chute because it had no idea that it got on a plane.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough