Climbing Quotes
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I think I shall try to take up climbing professionally. It’s something I love, and I think I am good at, even if it does not lead very far.
Chris Bonington
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I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.
Erik Weihenmayer
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The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.
Walter Bonatti
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The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
Jules Michelet
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Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.
Wojciech Kurtyka
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I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.
Wanda Rutkiewicz
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Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.
Ray Park
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By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.
Michael N. Castle
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I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.
Wojciech Kurtyka
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Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
Hugh Anthony Cregg III
Clover
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What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you
Wanda Rutkiewicz
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Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.
Morgan Freeman
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We have been disappointing on our travels, so we need to give our supporters something to shout about. You just need to put two or three results together and you could be climbing the table.
Alex McLeish
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I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
Michael Ovitz
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Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.
Wilferd Peterson
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Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
David Kenyon Webster
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Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.
Arlene Blum
