Climbing Quotes - Page 10

• I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

  Junko Tabei

  Nature, Travel, Men

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• I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

  Melissa Leo

  Rocks, Weather, Groups

  "Melissa Leo’s Golden Moment". Interview with Daniel D’Addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.

  Rose McGowan

  Believe, Pyramids, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jul 14, 2011

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• The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

  Kim Stanley

  Funny, Adventure, Mark

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• Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Heart, Men, Moon

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• I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasnt allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

  Kyle Gallner

  Kids, Tree, Height

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.

  Chael Sonnen

  Brother, Home, Cutting

  "Anderson Silva: Chael Sonnen not that evolved". Interview with Carlos Eduardo Ozório, www.mixedmartialarts.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Doubt is the enemy of success.

  Jim Bridwell

  Doubt, Enemy

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• We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

  Megan McArdle

  Children, Fall, Joy

  Megan McArdle (2014). “10 Ways to Bounce Back in Business and Life”, p.5, Head of Zeus

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• Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Mountain, Cracks, Valleys

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.34, Picador

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• Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
  climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

  Eddie Vedder

  Girl, Shoes, Trying

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• There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure.

  Graham Hancock

  Adventure, Ayahuasca, People

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• Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.

  Martin Amis

  Running, New York, Artist

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.64, Random House

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• The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Determination, Heart, Thinking

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• Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

  Robert Lowell

  Cat, Past, Talking

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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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.

  Thom Yorke

  Eye, Doors, Car

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• I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?

  Maurice Sendak

  Christian, Kids, Parks

  "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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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

  Shells, Helping, Trouble

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• After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Long Walks, Hills

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.

  Omar Samra

  Country, Lying, Pride

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• It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

  Criss Jami

  Fun, Passion, Writing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.58, Criss Jami

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• You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Rocks, Views

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Moving, Four Elements

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wall, Flower, Light

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.115, Рипол Классик

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• I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Sweet, Wind, Feet

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Routledge

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