Climbing Wall Quotes

#1. Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?"
"Yeah," I (Percy) said.
"Why is there lava pouring down it?"
"Little extra challenge ... " - Percy

Rick Riordan

#2. Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.

Laura Benanti

#3. When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

George Washington

#4. They were cowards, too. Everyone is.

John Green

#5. That the clematis are climbing the wall

Julie Klassen

#6. Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Richard Rohr

#7. Drop onto all fours and crawl the length of the court or field, as if you were climbing a wall. This prepares you, too, for light cat burgling, should your athletic career flag.

Gretchen Reynolds

#8. Some people are more terrorist than others.

John Keegan

#9. I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

Erin Morgenstern

#10. No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Winston Churchill

#12. When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

Paul Krugman

#13. You may be more prodigal of time than of money.

Suzanne Curchod

#14. Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Criss Angel

#15. Both companies have product ranges with world-class brands that complement each other perfectly. Our companies share a common culture and mission. By realizing synergies and with our combined financial and strategic strengths, we will be ideally positioned in tomorrow's marketplace.

Robert J. Eaton

#16. Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

John C. Maxwell

#17. I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.

Nick Willing

#18. The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second.

Karen Joy Fowler

#19. I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

James Salter

#20. Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain ... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

Chris Darwin

#21. My Characters Tell ME Where THEY Want to Go.

R.L. Stoll

#22. Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Portis

#23. The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

Meg White

#24. It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.

Kevin Jorgeson

#25. Maxx, let me help you," I begged, knowing I was slowly climbing over his wall.
His hands were around me in an instant, pulling me to his chest. I could hear the thudding of his heart beneath my ear. "You already are," he said, his voice vibrating in my head.

A Meredith Walters

#26. Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie

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

Sara Teasdale

#28. There is nothing worse than climbing a ladder to the top, only to discover that it is leaning on the wrong wall. That is DEFECTIVE SUCCESS.

Fela Durotoye

#29. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

#30. Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

Cassandra Clare

#31. A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

Marcelene Cox

#32. The loss inside him kept piling - vertebrae shattered, finger bones lost, gravestone past and guillotine future, ghost woman and her ghost curls,

Ryan Graudin

#33. It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

Stephen R. Covey