Climbs Quotes - Page 24

• Living's heavy work, but off to one side the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Rocks, Dying, Useless

  "Tuck Everlasting". Book by Natalie Babbitt, www.npr.org. 1975.

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• It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Fighting, Enemy, Mountain

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• When you get to the top, raise the top and climb some more.

  Jack Hyles

  Raises

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• If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

  Robert Higgs

  Swimming, Floating, Paddling

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• When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

  Alain Robert

  Building, Wells

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• Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

  Alain Robert

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• I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

  Alain Robert

  Life And Death, Enjoy, Literal

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• Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Heaven, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.

  Earl Tupper

  Inspirational, Fall, Hands

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• He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Inspirational, Attitude, World

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.40

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• With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Blood, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

  Maya Angelou

  Ocean, Writing, Swim

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• When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Motivation, Tunnels

  Robert H. Schuller (2002). “The Be Happy Attitudes”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, Catholic, Ladders

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• Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.

  Elif Safak

  Sex, Plato, Distance

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• My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

  James McBride

  Years, America, Parent

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.21, A&C Black

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• My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you.

  Sally Gardner

  Believe, Fall, People

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• He climbs highest who helps another up.

  George Matthew Adams

  Helping, Highest

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.39, Ravenio Books

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• How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Believe, Athlete, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.

  Greyson Chance

  Fall, Risk, Rewards

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• There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

  Conrad Anker

  Risk, Everest, Gauntlet

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• Mountaineering is a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its own particular charm. One is constantly searching for something never to be found.

  Hermann Buhl

  Giving, Relentless, Charm

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• Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it.

  Julie Powell

  Journey, Perfection, Stronger

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• Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

  Diane Frolov

  Kids, Tree, Forgiving

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• The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

  Stacy Allison

  Nature, Travel, Climbing

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