Quotes about climbing
climbing mountain static
I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain. Michael Ovitz
climbing diapers feet flames good smell
The flames were climbing up the walls. They were 15 to 20 feet high, ... Diapers don't smell good when they're burning.
climbing gears sometimes
Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse. John Sherman
climbing forgiving cold
O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. James Joyce
climbing light long
It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold. James Russell Lowell
climbing glimpse stealing
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them. Jon Krakauer
climbing great ladder trying
You've been climbing the ladder for 30 years, trying to get a great racehorse.
climbing great
This is a great feeling. We've been climbing that mountain. Tonight, we made it to the top. Andrew Wilson
climbing childhood tree
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees Philip Roth
climbing hiking mountain
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. John Ruskin
climbing hands knights
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne. Miguel de Cervantes
climbing sick matter
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. Jimmy Webb
climbing ideas hiking
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster. Joe Biden
climbing solitary-life mind
They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives Jim Perrin
climbing hiking vision
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. George Leigh Mallory
climbing trying mountain
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
climbing want trekking
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.
climbing views climbs
Life's a climb, but the view's great. Lucas Till
climbing cities feelings
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. Lord Byron
climbing-up life-is-like mountain
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. Josh Billings
climbing mountain swiss
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter. Paul Theroux
climbing mountain ulcers
The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills. Maxwell Maltz
climbing life-and-death mountain
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread. Maurice Herzog
climbing ladders way
I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way. Joyce Carol Oates
climbing shut-up stomach
Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained. Rick Riordan
climbing impossible murder
Bolts are the murder of the impossible. Reinhold Messner
climbing mountain want
I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.
climbing doe increase
My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.
climbing mountain unfair
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.
climbing white snow
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. Robert Frost
climbing hands hiking
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. River Phoenix
climbing risk suffering
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... William Arthur Ward
climbing achievement limits
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't. Stirling Moss