Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Webb

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

Lucas Till

Life's a climb, but the view's great.

Lord Byron

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

Heidi Klum

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

Chelsea Cain

People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.

Michael James

The Nasdaq is up on the day, primarily due to Apple. This market is climbing a wall of worries. People are too committed to equities in the longer term.

Ever since I was a junior in high school I have been climbing and I always go at least once a week. It's tons of fun and you can meet new people. Rock climbing is a great way to stay in shape, especially for college students.

Rather than being a risk-taker as such, I consider myself and my climbing peers to be risk-controllers, and we just enjoy being in this situation and keeping risk at a reasonable level.

At the time, we didn't think he had a real good voice, but he was flopping around like Daffy Duck. It was great. He was climbing up on stuff and rolling around. It was pretty cool.

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.

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.

Frances Perkins

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Chris Hardwick

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

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.

As the house just filled up with water, it forced me into the attic, and then I ended up kicking out the wall and climbing up to a tree because the houses around me were just disappearing.

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

Jay Watson

The Wilderness Society recognizes climbing as a long-standing tradition in wilderness, yet we recognize that climbing can have, like many recreational uses, an impact.

These are the games you have to win. We've got to start climbing the ladder back into a playoff spot and get better in our division.

Is there any peace/ In ever climbing up the climbing wave?

I've been training a lot in Colorado, and I've actually been riding a ton on the mountain bike. I've been climbing up the steepest things I could possibly find in Durango, which is not hard to do. It's good training because it's really hard on the arms.

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.

Fuzzy Zoeller

After three days, I think you'll see the bombers climbing up there.

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.

Rhianna Pratchett

I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him on isometric paper. It was very bonding.

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

Richard Nelson

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.