There has never be a perfect skydive and there never will be. -- Bill Purdin Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. -- W. Edwards Deming The higher we soar the smaller we look to those who cannot fly. -- Frederich Nietzsche Live in the sunshine, drink the wild air… -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ...and once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return. -- Leonardo de Vinci The sky is God's gift to you...what you do with it is your gift to him. -- Bill Purdin Normal People Scare Me. (Bumper Sticker) At 13.000 feet nothing else matters. (Bumper Sticker) Only you can save your life. -- Anonymous Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. (Bumper Sticker) Life sucks, and then you fly. -- Bill Purdin Plain and simple, skydiving is all about controlled terror, and I love it. -- Lewis B. Sanborn If you spend more time talking about what you used to do, or what can't do anymore than what you can do or even what you're dreaming of doing ... then you've reached that point in life where skydiving is now an absolute necessity. -- Bill Purdin Minds are like parachutes -- they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. -- Elizabeth Aston |