Quotes About Climbing

#1. The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#2. Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be an ambassador for the sport and raise the profile. I try to take advantage of any opportunity to share climbing with the world.

Chris Sharma

#3. Staring at the mountain requires nothing.
Climbing the mountain requires strength.
Reaching the mountaintop requires perseverance.
Staying at the mountaintop requires wisdom.
Reaching for the stars requires everything.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

Eminem

#5. We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.

Walter Darby Bannard

#7. I am climbing to my freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard, just because of sex, freedom from the Florence Crittenden Homes where all the poor girls go who should have been fitted out like me, because what they did, they would do anyway..

Sylvia Plath

#8. But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2

Greg Mortenson

#9. Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Franz Grillparzer

#10. Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

Eddie Vedder

#11. There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.

Hugh Laurie

#12. Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane. Doc Daneeka had been told that people who enjoyed climbing into an airplane were really giving vent to a subconscious desire to climb back into the womb.

Joseph Heller

#14. There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.

Alex Honnold

#15. Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

Steve Fossett

#16. I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#17. In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

Edward John Trelawny

#18. Shadow was amused, and a little puzzled, to realize that he was far more concerned about breaking the rules by climbing onto the carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon's bank robbery.

Neil Gaiman

#19. When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Edmund Hillary

#20. He came to a decision and looked at Dagon before climbing into the car.
"Find the Disir."
Dagon stiffened, showing a rare sign of emotion. "Is that wise?" he asked.
"It is neccessary.

Michael Scott

#21. Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

Marilyn Monroe

#22. With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.

Chris Sharma

#23. That the clematis are climbing the wall

Julie Klassen

#24. Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.

Amanda McCabe

#25. When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Jacqueline Susann

#26. Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

William Davis

#27. Davey saw Violet climbing down to make the tea, and decided that he'd better get Grandpa off the ceiling. After all, they had company.

J.M. Kessler

#28. Someone's boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.

Emma Cline

#29. Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

Joaquin Miller

#30. That's like climbing a tree to find a fish.

Mencius

#31. *I love climbing mountains in all fields (Whatever was this fields).
*I love tranquility and it is more for me precious than money.
*Honesty is a few valuable nowadays.
after willing of God and Step by step with Concentration i will achieve What I want to.

Charles Dickens

#32. Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

Barnaby Conrad

#33. Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in tune, you have some days where you don't feel that good. It's this never-ending process. Accepting that and enjoying that for what it is, that's really where the life of climbing is.

Chris Sharma

#34. One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Earl Wilson

#35. Don't you have anything to stop a dragon?" Lux asked, climbing as fast as he could in the tree. "The only way to stop a dragon is to stab it through its heart!" Wick shouted back. "Get out of the tree before it comes back!

Amanda Hocking

#36. Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

Huey Lewis

#37. We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

Octavia Butler

#38. Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy - degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.

Billy Graham

#39. I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks?

Sarah Hall

#40. From the green belt balcony, the wildfires look so pretty
Ponderosa canopy, I'd never leave if it were up to me
To the ruby redwood tree, and to the velvet climbing ivy painted all mahogany
I'd never leave if it were up to me

Owl City

#41. We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

Gary Neville

#42. I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#43. Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

George R R Martin

#44. We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

Marie Of Romania

#45. Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

Claude Bernard

#46. I am climbing a difficult road;
but the glory gives me strength.

Propertius

#47. I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!

Eddie Izzard

#48. I used to think that if I didn't have time to do an hour long workout class, there wasn't any point in exercising. But now, I make sure to do a little something every day: a brisk walk for 10 minutes, climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator. Then a few times a week, I do a longer workout.

Bobbi Brown

#49. I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.

Chris Sharma

#50. There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.

David Nicholls

#51. I start pulling my guts out
those red silk cords,
spiraling skyward,
and I'm climbing them
past the moon and the sun,
past darkness
into white.
I mean to live.

Ai

#52. I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

Edmund Hillary

#53. Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.

Orson Scott Card

#54. She was climbing Mount Everest and the air was invigorating and wonderful. Even if every second verged on crisis, this was part of living - not just watching from the sidelines.

Jacqueline Susann

#55. Always she thought of him as climbing some mountain in his mind, like that great one to the west on which his eyes would dwell so often and from which he seemed to derive something that was even more than strength.

Elizabeth Yates

#56. How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

Edward Abbey

#57. Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good,
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#58. There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. She was in herself, like a woman near term,
and did not think of the man, going on ahead,
or the path, climbing upwards towards life.
She was in herself. And her being-dead
filled her with abundance.
As a fruit with sweetness and darkness,
so she was full with her vast death.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#60. The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

David Breashears

#61. We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#62. With each step I take I am:
Growing stronger, more spiritual and wiser. Climbing and conquering the imaginary mountains in my mind. Releasing the destroying hurt in my heart. Defeating the fearful giants in my soul. All for the purpose of making a new and improved me.

Timothy Pina

#63. I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

Elle King

#64. There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

Jon Krakauer

#65. The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

Gus Van Sant

#66. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.

Stephen Colletti

#67. All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough

Ruskin Bond

#68. I think what I've realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards.

Sophie Kinsella

#69. In climbing, there was always a fraction of a second between the security of being locked in and the freedom of an actual rappel.

Paul Aertker

#70. I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing!

Jamie Bell

#71. Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

Heidi Klum

#72. We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

Saku Koivu

#73. Sometimes in life all we can do is keep climbing, even when it doesn't make any sense anymore.

Cameron Jace

#74. Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it.

Mekael Shane

#75. Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#76. There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

Michael Bassey

#77. Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.

John F. Kennedy

#78. If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Donny Osmond

#79. Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

Ann Cotton

#80. For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

Lynn Hill

#81. One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Margaret Thatcher

#82. It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

Jeanne Moreau

#83. A visitor to campus can find sweet, aromatic Properity, as well as Climbing Ophelia and those delicious Egyptian Roses, which give off the scent of cloves on rainy days, ensuring that a gardener's hands will smell sweet for hours after pruning the canes.

Alice Hoffman

#84. I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

Jim Bridwell

#85. There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

Richard Nelson

#86. It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment.

Sheba Karim

#87. Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

Wally Lamb

#88. New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

Albert Einstein

#89. If I solve this one, said Harry's brain, I want a cookie afterward, and if you make the problem any more difficult than this, I mean the slightest bit more difficult, I am climbing out of your skull and heading for Tahiti.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#90. Have you seen Marcus?" he asked his ugly friend.
"Yes, he was stoping some people in the Violet Room from climbing the curtains."
"What for?"
"They were not professionals."
"Oh.

Ellen Kushner

#91. 'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.

Alex Honnold

#92. When I fall from the tree, every future climbing move explodes apart in my mind, a deck of cards thrown in the air.

Ned Hayes

#93. When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.

Anna Popplewell

#94. Be mindful of the prayers you send
pray hard but pray with care
for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers
letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around
so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down

Nick Cave

#95. I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

Bear Grylls

#96. I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

Shay Mitchell

#97. For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#98. As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Henry David Thoreau

#99. her, climbing out of the bath.

Anne Stuart

#100. (Technically, that meant the roof wasn't accessible, since most people don't view "climbing straight up the side of the building" as an option. Most people are silly.)

Seanan McGuire