Quotes About Climbing Rocks

#1. We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society ... We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

Yvon Chouinard

#2. I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

Taylor Kinney

#3. Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

Anne Bancroft

#4. My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.

Mark Martin

#5. We are the thoughts we choose to keep.

A.D. Posey

#6. We can't always control what we don't like, Tiny Dancer.

Nyrae Dawn

#7. I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

Yuri Kochiyama

#8. Oh my dear, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you are, I can hear your song. I can feel your pain, and I really care.

Debasish Mridha

#9. It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

Cesar Romero

#10. I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to not play rock and roll anymore, because that's their image of themselves. When you've convinced everybody that that's who you are, that's who you are.

Jim Bridwell

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Chris Sharma

#15. 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

#16. I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.

Glenn McQuaid

#17. I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Nikki Sixx

#18. If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more.

Meda Chesney-Lind

#19. Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you're climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can't see where you've come from or where you're going.

Syd Field

#20. There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic ... Just like rock climbing.

David Schuller

#21. The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

John Muir

#22. It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

Erik Weihenmayer

#23. Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.

Chris Sharma

#24. In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

Edward Abbey

#25. Rocks make no compromise for sex ... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.

Beverly Johnson

#26. Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"
"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.

Cressida Cowell

#27. I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

Erik Weihenmayer

#28. The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

Rand Paul

#29. Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

Muhammad Ali

#30. In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

John Wesley

#31. It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets.

Yuval Noah Harari

#32. Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#33. My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

Rodney Dangerfield

#34. I realized that I'd put so much energy into thinking about what I didn't want to happen that I'd caused that exact thing to happen. I conjured that bitch.

Sophia Amoruso

#35. Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

Shannon Miller

#36. Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.

Stewart Francis

#37. Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust.

Lawrence Millman

#38. I am tarred and feathered with Time.

Ogden Nash