Quotes about climbing
climbing childhood tree
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees Philip Roth
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 equity market wall worry
The equity market is climbing a wall of worry right now. David Rosenberg
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 great
This is a great feeling. We've been climbing that mountain. Tonight, we made it to the top. Andrew Wilson
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 great ladder trying
You've been climbing the ladder for 30 years, trying to get a great racehorse.
climbing risk mountain
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. Norman Vincent Peale
climbing hiking benches
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. Lewis Thomas
climbing mountain littles
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. Marcus Aurelius
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 valleys come-up
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
climbing crisis domestic energy face fact house improves incentives needs prices provides resources response
The first thing we need to do in response to these climbing prices is get our house in order. The U.S. needs legislation that addresses our energy problems, provides incentives for alternative energy, improves energy infrastructure, maximizes domestic resources and addresses the fact that the energy crisis we face now isn't going away.
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 mountain swiss
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter. Paul Theroux
climbing want would-be
Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them. Heidi Klum
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 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 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 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 despair fading
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. T. S. Eliot
climbing finding-yourself wish
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed? Ransom Riggs
climbing descending
We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing. Richard Paul Evans
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 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
climbing feelings important
Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important. Steve House