Climbs Quotes - Page 32

• Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Loneliness, Gun

  Song: Love Calls You By Your Name, Album: Songs of Love and Hate, 1971

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• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  Sebastian Junger

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

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• We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  God, Mountain, Worship

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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• If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.

  Dolly Parton

  Together, Hills, Dense

  Song: A Better Place To Live, Album: Coat of Many Colors

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• I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

  Miranda Kerr

  Dad, Past, Koalas

  "'I believe in celebrating the female figure' says a very hot, very naked Miranda Kerr" by Caroline Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Brother, Sorry, Nice

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• I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

  Alain Robert

  World, Building, Five

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• When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.

  Aron Ralston

  Home, Winter, Feet

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• We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Moving, Higher Ground, Earth

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• I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Thinking, China, Everest

  "TalkAsia" with Kyung Lah, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2012.

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• If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Children, People, Appreciate

  "TalkAsia" with Kyung Lah, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2012.

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• We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Horse, Children, Winter

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• We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Higher Ground, Grace

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• When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

  Criss Jami

  Inspirational, Sides, Poet

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

  Criss Jami

  Fall, Heart, Stronger

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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• I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.

  Matt Long

  Girlfriend, World, Backpacking

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• I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

  Greg Mortenson

  Mountain, World, Pakistan

  "Humanitarian Greg Mortenson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 11, 2009.

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• I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, People, Boxing

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• I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.

  Gerard Way

  Voice, Old Habits, Listening

  "My Chemical romance 'can never die', Gerard Way says" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2013.

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• For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Tired, Light, Land

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• Every mountain needs someone to climb it,
  Every ocean needs someone to dive in,
  Every dream needs someone to wish it,
  Every adventure needs someone to live it

  India.Arie

  Dream, Ocean, Adventure

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• Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

  Lois Lowry

  Thinking

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.665, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.

  Alex Zanardi

  Confidence, Climbing, Knowing

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• To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.

  Auguste Piccard

  Space, Darkness, Domain

  Auguste Piccard (1956). “Earth, Sky, and Sea”

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• I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

  Laurel Lea

  Heaven, Ruins, Planning

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

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