In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.
What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.
When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.
Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.
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?
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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
My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.
Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.
Love is like skydiving without a parachute.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
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.
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.
Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.
