Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Carson McCullers

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

Edmund Hillary

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

Edmund Hillary

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Edmund Hillary

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Edmund Hillary

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

Edmund Hillary

You climb for the hell of it.

Edmund Hillary

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

Doug Scott

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

Doug Scott

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

Doug Scott

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

Doug Scott

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

Anatoli Boukreev

Climbing is what I do.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

Deepa Mehta

To make 'Water' was akin to climbing Mount Everest -- a hard journey.

Deepa Mehta

To make WATER was akin to climbing Everest; a hard journey. But where to go from there? Having Fox Searchlight distribute the film in the U.S. is like finding a stairway to Heaven. I couldn't be more pleased.

Deepa Mehta

To make 'Water' was akin to climbing Everest; a hard journey. But where to go from there? Having Fox Searchlight distribute the film in the U.S. is like finding a stairway to Heaven. I couldn't be more pleased.

(Tonight) is a big game. We got a couple days off. It's not a whole week which is nice. We had a couple days of good hard practice, and maybe a little rest. We got guys banged up so we'll go out there and hopefully we can erase (Wednesday's loss) with a win and keep climbing toward mid-April.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.