Parachute Sky Jump

Famous quotes containing the words parachute, sky and/or jump:

“I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“There’s something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)