Climbing Quotes - Page 31

• For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

  Lynn Hill

  Rocks, Years, Thirty

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• Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top..
  So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop

  J. Cole

  Promise, Heartbeat, Momma

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Class, Purple

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have come to appreciate the long view afforded by those treetops. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, Views, Long

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Technology, Thinking, Games

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• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Airplane, Light, Achievement

  Rudolf Arnheim (2009). “The Dynamics of Architectural Form”, p.33, Univ of California Press

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• Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Mean, Addiction, Alcohol

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• I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

  Fred Nicole

  Thinking, Doubt, Barometer

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• Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

  Pat Ament

  Piano, Effort, Feelings

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• We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Stars, Believe, Rocks

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• I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

  Tom Hornbein

  Views, Drug, Risk

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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• On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.

  David Lange

  Years, Two, Castles

  "A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations", (p. 94), 2000.

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• In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

  Jimmy Webb

  Sick, Pushing, Matter

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• It is right precious to behold
  The first long surf of climbing light
  Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Long, Sunrise

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.78

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• Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

  Erma Bombeck

  Names, Numbers, Telephones

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• There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.

  Gail Mazur

  Letting Go, Buddhist, Wall

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• It's not just back-to-back Super Bowls - it's back-to-back Super Bowls in his first three years, it's back-to-back Super Bowls climbing over the backs of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning... If Russell Wilson wins back-to-back Super Bowls, there is no doubt it puts him amongst the top.

  Michael Irvin

  Winning, Years, Nfl

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• There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

  Karyn Kusama

  Goal, Mountain, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

  Carson McCullers

  Cat, Tree, Outsiders

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

  Sally Quinn

  Running, Two, People

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• On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep
  Descends the solemn mystery of sleep,
  Toiling and climbing to the very close,
  The weary Body, longing for repose,
  On the gained level of the day's ascent,
  Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.

  Abraham Coles

  Sleep, Eye, Night

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48

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• I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  Samina Baig

  Empowering, Mountain, Empowering Women

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• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  Samina Baig

  Passion, Empowering, Mountain

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• There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Grateful, Humble, People

  "Jennifer Aniston talks tabloids and staying normal in Hollywood". Q&A, www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2014.

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