Mountain Climbers Quotes

#1. There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Henry Rollins

#2. How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach

Hanshan

#3. I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

Jason Mraz

#4. That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature
that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Yann Martel

#5. They explored me high enough as mountain climbers reached the mountain tops.

Fernando Lachica

#6. But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

Mark Twain

#7. I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

Terry Pratchett

#8. The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

Gerhard E Frost

#9. Mountain climbers think of the mountain not of the danger.

Marty Rubin

#10. I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

Will Hobbs

#11. There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Phil McGraw

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

Wanda Rutkiewicz

#13. I think too many of the politicians in Washington have forgotten simple ideals like solving problems and helping neighbors. The Washington game is more about scoring points or sticking it to the other guy.

Charlie Melancon

#14. I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Bob Uecker

#15. We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

Shingai Shoniwa

#16. I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

Daley Thompson

#17. I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.

Anatoli Boukreev

#18. Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you.

Stacy Allison

#19. If someone had really done you an ill turn and later came to you and said, "I am truly sorry," would that mean as much to you as "the burden of it has been intolerable to me"? Remorse

Gail Godwin

#20. The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

Lincoln Hall

#21. We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

Robert Falcon Scott

#22. Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

Jonathan Waterman

#23. A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan

#24. In the criminal law [ ... ] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.

Pius Langa

#25. As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain ... We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

Lincoln Hall

#26. Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic

Gavin De Becker