Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

River Phoenix

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

William Arthur Ward

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live...

Herman Melville

There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty.

Henry David Thoreau

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Jeremy Jones

What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

Galen Rowell

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

Galen Rowell

When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.

Franz Kafka

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Chris Hardwick

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

Frances Perkins

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Paul Tibbets

I wanted to climb in and fly it,

I walk to stay in shape for mountain climbing and to spend precious time with my wife.

I've had a productive season when some players out there have been struggling. I've climbed a few rungs of the ladder and I'm still enjoying it, so I haven't got anything to moan about.

It's in the paper every day how we are doing, and it's about wins and losses. We look at that just like the fan does. You can't hide from that. With that said, I go deeper than that to see if our foundation is solid, so when we take a dip it isn't so deep and so far down and it's hard to climb back up.

It's quickly climbing up to the top. We can move into regions with saltier soils and colder springs. It's already popular and demand for it will only continue.

It was a remarkable climb down by the king, and overall we must be happy with this. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be looking at the various problems which need to be addressed.

It's a real shame because Jessica pitched well enough to win. It seems like we keep climbing the ladder and then take a few steps down just when we are close to the top. We never made the proper adjustments at the plate and don't seem to understand defensively what we need to do to just get out of the inning.

Lance Armstrong

It's a strange climb ... long but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys, and they can take shots at you from the back.

Dave Tippett

It's a big hill but big hills have been climbed before.

It was profit-taking, that's all. There's no other reason. There's also a little less volume, which shows we're not in climbing mode any more.

William Watson

It lifted the vehicle 2 feet in the air. I was on fire, but I was able to climb out and roll away.

It's huge. We're two teams that are in the same position and fighting to climb up the ladder and back into the playoff race.

It's hard to tell at this point if the Nikkei has reached a target or if it will climb higher.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

It's been a long and hard climb for these girls, but I think the pieces are finally in place.

That last hill was the hardest hill to climb and I think we might have worn out with only seven guys at the moment. We have a reputation as a run and gun team. But the seven guys have been working very hard on being patient and it paid off.

It's nice to climb back in this Pac-10 race.

Everybody was expecting this hurricane to be one of biblical proportions and that oil prices were going to climb sharply. As the storm weakened, oil prices retreated and demand for stocks rebounded.

As people get older, they lose interest in mountain climbing or skiing.

Steve Squyres

That's no Mt. Everest, but it's a heck of a climb for our little rover. When we first touched down at Gusev Crater on Jan. 4, 2004, the Columbia Hills looked impossibly far away.