Mountain Climber Quotes

#1. I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Robert Littell

#2. I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on - and then I'll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.

Viswanathan Anand

#3. I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.
And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience - a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. The view from the mountaintop is not what makes you a mountain-climber; it is the climb itself.

Greg Kuhn

#5. Dan pulled him in. Anchored him. Secured him, like one mountain climber to the other, rope and irons and nothing but the abyss if the rope failed. "It will work. I haven't got this far to give up."
"It'll work." Dan's kisses grew more intense. "It must." Because you're mine, and you belong to me.

Aleksandr Voinov

#6. In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

Clark Ashton Smith

#7. For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

Jim Wickwire

#8. I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

Wanda Rutkiewicz

#9. When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as
the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Kahlil Gibran

#10. Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that?
Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn't that some kind of flower?

D.J. MacHale

#11. Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

Mary Astor

#12. I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

Annie Smith Peck

#13. I was not prepared to play the role of singer in the camp of the warriors

Leon Trotsky

#14. What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

Chris Avellone

#15. How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

Steven Levenkron

#16. One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

Allan Lokos

#17. There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals ... no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

Richelle Mead

#18. What I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar?

Paul Kalanithi