Climb Quotes

• Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.

  

  Wintley Phipps
  • Mountain
  • Climb
  • Smooth

• ...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

  

  Alistair Maclean
  • Up
  • Men
  • Long

• The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Process
  • Interests
  • Lift

• Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • High
  • Summer
  • Mountains

• How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Important
  • Mountain
  • Climb

• But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Lies
  • Broken
  • France

• No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Learning
  • Study
  • Weather

• I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself." Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk. There is no going back now, I thought. For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Climb
  • Began
  • Wolrd

• I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Tree
  • Learned
  • Climb

• The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Painful
  • Swaraj
  • Pilgrimage

• You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Climb
  • Summit

• If they slide too far, they'll find themselves in the same situation as the Xbox did when they launched the PS2 a year before we entered. That's a hill to climb.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • Situation
  • Climb
  • Hill

• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sake
  • Higher
  • Plants

• But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Mountain
  • Teaching
  • Climb

• Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Laugh
  • Bold
  • Offensive

• Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

  

  Confucius
  • Happiness
  • Mountain
  • Climb

• I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mountains
  • Imaginary
  • Climb

• That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Change
  • Back
  • Breath

• I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Climb

• A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Climb
  • Starts
  • Foot

• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Respect
  • Person
  • Everything

• A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Theatre

• My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Son
  • Married
  • Realize

• It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.…

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Struggle
  • Knock Down
  • Asher

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