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You know you’re a skydiver when on windy days you go to the drop zone anyway and bitch about the weather. – Author Unknown

You know you’re a skydiver when you show up at the drop zone even on the worst-weather days because at least you can sit around drinking beer. – Author Unknown

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 was on the point of cutting the cord that suspended me between heaven and earth… and measured with my eye the vast space that separated me from the rest of the human race… I felt myself precipitated with a velocity that was checked by the sudden unfolding of my parachute. – André-Jacques Garnerin, 1797

You know you’re a skydiver when your friends think it’s funny when you are sleeping to blow a fan in your face and set a beeper off near your ear. – Author Unknown

If I could stand in an open airplane doorway two-and-a-half miles above the ground and will myself to step into empty space, then I could do anything. – Dave Stein

No one’s hungry in the first few seconds of a skydive. – Brad Pilon, advocate of intermittent fasting

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith, 1940

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

You know you’re a skydiver when you try to convince the flight attendant on a commercial flight that you really would be much more comfortable sitting on the floor. – Author Unknown

At 13,000 feet nothing else matters. – Author Unknown

My soul is in the sky. – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky. – Amelia Earhart

Plain and simple, skydiving is all about controlled terror, and I love it. – Lewis B. Sanborn

I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are. – Felix Baumgartner

Jump pilots have an open door policy. – Author Unknown

You know you’re a skydiver when you’ll wake up at 6:30 am on the weekends to get to the drop zone, but you can’t seem to get up by 7:30 on the weekdays to be at work by 8:00. – Author Unknown

I now know the color of fear — it’s brown. – Author Unknown

Aviation is not in itself inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than even the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect. – Alfred Gilmer Lamplugh

You know you’re a skydiver when you are thinking about taking all the but the driver’s seats out of your car. – Author Unknown