90 Skydiving Quotes

Following is our list of skydiving quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about parachute.

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Famous Skydiving Quotes

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. - Henny Youngman

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. — Henny Youngman

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff. — Catherine Bell

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing. - Roger Moore

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing. — Roger Moore

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

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

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. — Nigel Mansell

Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports. — Nirmal Purja

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. — Kurt Vonnegut

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. - Ray Bradbury

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. — Ray Bradbury

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. — Douglas Adams

The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible. — Dean Potter

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug. — Hermann Buhl

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. — Dave Barry

Leap, and the net will appear. — Julie Cameron

Short Skydiving Quotes

  • My time on this world is limited, but the things I can do with that time are not. — Jeb Corliss
  • I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. — Charles Lindbergh
  • If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. — Steven Wright
  • I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom. — Felix Baumgartner
  • Love is like skydiving without a parachute. — Lois Greiman
  • If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you. — Christopher Titus
  • If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver. — Dan Poynter
  • I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters. — Sebastian Pinera
  • Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt. — Chris A. Bridges
  • I was skydiving horizontally. — Steven Wright

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

Bungee Jumping Quotes

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. — Taylor Dane

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions. — James N. Miller

Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing. — Dominique Wilkins

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again. — Jason Aldean

I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit. — Shandi Finnessey

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action. — Akshay Kumar

I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door. — Neil Patrick Harris

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate. — William Davis

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee. — Norah Jones

Parachute Quotes

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

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 will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar! — Steve Harvey

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

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. - James Dewar

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. — James Dewar

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 them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow! — Yuri Gagarin

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. — William Stafford

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. — Benny Hill

My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time. — Andrea Gibson

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. — Thomas R. Dewar

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

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More Skydiving Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I didn't really because I know myself well enough to know that if I actually sit down and think about sort of I can spook myself out like anyone, you know? It's sort of like you've got to sort of jump out of the airplane when you're skydiving. If you spend 20 minutes sitting on the lip you probably won't do it. — Justin Theroux

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her. — Ernest Hemingway

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

Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women. — Anne Bancroft

Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women. — Ann Bancroft

What excites me is danger! I like to do daring things. I've bungee jumped three times. The only thing I haven't tried is skydiving. — Damon Wayans, Jr.

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

I would've never dreamt that my skydive would trigger such gushing enthusiasm. I still don't really understand exactly what I've accomplished, although I always suspected it would be a truly spectacular moment. — Felix Baumgartner

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling. — Bear Grylls

What the studio didn't understand is that surfing is about a billion times more dangerous than skydiving. They would not allow the boys to skydive, but they allowed us to surf in pipeline in Hawaii. Nine-hundred foot waves. So we're out there in the middle where the greatest surfers in the world surf. They have these long lenses on from the beach, so they can't see anything. They are just shooting our faces in the Point Break. — Lori Petty

I'm a skydiver, I race motorcycles and I enjoy the thrill of life and for me in this walk of faith there really is no greater thrill than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life. — Stephen Baldwin

I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown. — Kathryn Budig

I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now, you could say he was all right, because he was able to jump. But you could also say he was not all right, because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute. — Robert Preston

You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for. — Christian Rudder

I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing. — Carlos Alazraqui

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom. — Yves Rossy

I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me. — Wayne Knight

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics. — William Monahan

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't. — Yancy Butler

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before? — Eugene Levy

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver. — Felix Baumgartner

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions. — Felix Baumgartner

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