Climbing Quotes
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.
When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.
Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.
I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.
... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.
On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.
Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.
If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep stretching them. Success is on the top, keep going.
Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.
The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.
Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.
If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13, 796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.
I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
You ought to find all your might, to climb a higher height.
Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself."I'm never afraid, " answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.
Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it.
The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.
Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one.
Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it.
I climb the door instead of a treeJust to crawl with myself walking freeWhat if I’m a lizard beneath my skinChanging my colours of the human I’ve been
We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.
One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.
And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.
A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person.
The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!
That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.