Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Underwood

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

Aron Ralston

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

I feel like I'm playing better every game, ... I'm not up and down; ever since the start of the season, I've been climbing up. That's why I'm excited. We're going into these last five games, it's the meat of our schedule, it's all ACC opponents and I think I can play better football than I have been.

From where we're standing to the house was about ten feet. I'd say nine or ten feet of debris. 'Cause we were climbing close to the knot on that tree up there.

Marat Safin

I'm ambitious. I better start climbing back up there, because otherwise I will not get into tournaments. People will not take me as serious. It's very important to show everybody I still know how to play tennis and I'm still fighting.

Barry Bonds

I have so much on my shoulders, so much weight on my back. Constantly climbing that hill is getting a lot harder and harder by the day. But I'm going to climb it, no matter what.

It could be a very hazardous job. You are going up and down ladders all day and sometimes climbing on places that are still damaged. It's very unfortunate. Our hearts go out to him and his family.

Jamie Martin

I think you're going to start seeing a new team. You're going to start seeing a team that's climbing back up again.

Mohsin Hamid

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

Jeff Mullins

He was climbing a little early, but Victor said he then leveled off nice. There just wasn't any pace in the race.

Andrew Peterson

He had hold of the climber's climbing line in two hands and he was pulling down with all of his weight. There was no trying to hug a tree; there was nothing to do with trying to hug a tree, ... He was pulling on that thing as hard as he could.

Carson McCullers

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

Avery Johnson

We were climbing uphill from the start. We didn't have it.

Avery Johnson

We were climbing uphill all night long. We thought if we could have had a normal quarter offensively and not be in the hole down by 20 points like we were in the first quarter, then we'd be OK.

Some days he gets up really early, around four or five in the morning, and starts playing like crazy, climbing on his mother, climbing on the rocks,

Alex Honnold

Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.

Aristotle

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Ranbir Kapoor

My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

Vivek Wadhwa

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

Bobbi Brown

I used to think that if I didn't have time to do an hour long workout class, there wasn't any point in exercising. But now, I make sure to do a little something every day: a brisk walk for 10 minutes, climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator. Then a few times a week, I do a longer workout.

Eric Ripert

When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.

Albert Einstein

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

We've got a lot of work to do. We're starting much farther down the ladder than we have in the past and we're not climbing as quick as we have. They are working harder than I've seen to try to get over that hill.

Tommy Caldwell

I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.

While housing prices and margins may be climbing to stratospheric levels, it is important to recognize that they are still climbing and driving earnings higher,

Edmund Hillary

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.

We are climbing a ladder while others take the elevator. We make progress, but others make it faster.

Petrarch

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

People were tripping over each other, climbing over the seats to get to the exit.

Philippe Petit

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

Many factors have conspired to make this cholera outbreak one of the worst ever seen in Angola. But with what we know today there can be no excuse for not doing everything humanly possible to prevent the death toll from climbing much higher.