Climbs Quotes - Page 15

• When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Mother, Believe, Men

  Richard K. Morgan (2009). “The Steel Remains”, p.3, Del Rey

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• It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Love, Men, Mountain

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• When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Letting Go, Past, Joy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

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• There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Wall, Real

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Couple, Disappointment, Fall

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

  Isaac Marion

  Mind, Ceilings, Mouths

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Coffee, Kids

  "Why We Broke Up". Book by Daniel Handler, December, 2011.

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• If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

  Mick Foley

  Heaven, Ladders, Elbows

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• Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love with somebody, and often if you’ve just met somebody, its crazy! It’s completely overwhelming. You can’t think of anything else. You just want to climb inside the other person and live under their pancreas. And then it mellows, somewhat... to the point where you can barely look at them... without feeling a mild distaste

  Dylan Moran

  Change, Crazy, Thinking

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• I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell over the edge.' Karen said. 'I jumped,' Walter added, 'And I can't seem to climb back up.

  Bryan Davis

  Mother, Sorry, Character

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• Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else. "I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?" "You'd think of something." "No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning." "Before breakfast?" "Yes. All right Mission Control?" "All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero.

  Hilary McKay

  Morning, Wall, Stupid

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• The Summer after high school, when we first met, we make out in your Mustang, to Radiohead, and on my 18th birthday, we got matching tattoes, Used to steal your parents liquor, then climb to the roof, Talk about our future like we had a clue, Never thought I'd wondering I'd be losing you In another life, I would be your belle

  Katy Perry

  Summer, School, Parent

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• Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?" Aline looked up. "Climb the demon towers?" She laughed. "No, no one ever does that. It's totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, why would you want to?" Aline, Isabelle thought, did not have much imagination. She herself could think of lots of reasons why someone might want to climb the demon towers, if only to spit gum down on passerbys below.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, People, Imagination

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Children, Wall

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• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grieving, Rivers, Silence

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Moon, Black

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Veils, May

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.411

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• The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Military, Real, Men

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• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

  Peder Soerensen

  Discovery, Mountain, Valleys

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• Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Life, Motivational, Victory

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

  Al-Ghazali

  Struggle, Islamic, Uphill Climbs

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• If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

  Julie Krone

  Perseverance, Fence, Gates

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the unique element in the gospel, which tells us that what we could never do, God has done. We cannot climb up to heaven to discover God, but God has come down to earth, in the person of his Son, to reveal himself to us in the only way we could really understand: in terms of a human life.

  Norman Anderson

  Spiritual, Son, Unique

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• What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Moon, Heaven

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