Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Hillary

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

Cleve Touchberry

We've got a lot of work to do. We're starting much farther down the ladder than we have in the past and we're not climbing as quick as we have. They are working harder than I've seen to try to get over that hill.

Doug Scott

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

Doug Scott

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

Doug Scott

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Anatoli Boukreev

Climbing is what I do.

Robert Frost

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.

Confucius

He who sling mud, lose ground.

Plautus

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Mike Lawrence

Marsh is more pleasant to look at than kind of a mud bank.

Gertrude Stein

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Robert Schwartz

We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.

Astro Teller

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Denis Simonneau

France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position.

Francois Jacob

Evolution is a tinkerer.

Jello Biafra

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Eric Church

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

Steve Willis

You keep showing up, you see the process, the evolution.

Herbie Hancock

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

John Ambrose Fleming

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

Ernst Mayr

Evolution is no longer necessarily progressive; it no longer strives toward perfection or any other goal. It is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

John M. Smith

Evolution is great, but I still like bananas.