Top 100 Quotes About Climbs
#1. One does not simply read books ... one climbs inside them and lives there
Anonymous
#2. When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?
Susan Estrich
#3. ARTHUR: (indicates rain) Couldn't you have peed before we went under?
YUSUF: Sorry.
The front door OPENS and Eames climbs in, soaked.
EAMES: Bit too much free champagne before takeoff, Yusuf?
YUSUF: Ha bloody ha.
Christopher J. Nolan
#4. He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.
Ruth Park
#5. Great men must go through great pain
The strongest storms
The hardest rain
The toughest climbs
The roughest terrain
Great men must go through great pain
Calvin W. Allison
#6. I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
Markus Zusak
#7. Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
Guillaume Apollinaire
#8. The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.
Tommy Caldwell
#9. To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.
Pierre Daninos
#10. Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back.
John Steinbeck
#11. Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.
Lasse Viren
#12. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.
Joseph Stilwell
#14. Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
David Bowie
#15. The Sherpa of Changli had a saying: A man can count on two hands all the climbs he conquers, and that man conquers nothing. I always took this to mean the more we summit the more we lose.
Hugh Howey
#16. Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
R.D. Laing
#18. This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?
Rudy Rucker
#19. The sun climbs the horizon. I throw back the covers, take another breath, and begin. I get to. I get to live.
Ann Voskamp
#20. The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.
Dean Koontz
#21. Is it dawn? She climbs the ladder and presses her ear to the trapdoor. No more sirens. Maybe the house burned
Anthony Doerr
#22. Listen to the night wind in the trees, Listen to the summer grass singing; Listen to the time that's tripping by, And the dawn dew falling. Listen to the moon as it climbs the sky, Listen to the pebbles humming; Listen to the mist in the trembling leaves, And the silence calling.
Ruskin Bond
#23. When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
William O. Douglas
#24. In the deep shadow of the porch
A slender bind-weed springs,
And climbs, like airy acrobat,
The trellises, and swings
And dances in the golden sun
In fairy loops and rings.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
#25. Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl Of Strafford
#27. Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.
Rumi
#28. Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
John Dryden
#29. When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.
Michael Cadnum
#30. A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death.
Bruce Barcott
#31. The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
Paul Twitchell
#32. To every man there openeth a way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, and the low soul gropes the low. And in between, on the misty flats, the rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth a high way and a low, and every man decideth the way his soul shall go ...
William Arthur Dunkerley
#33. As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.
B. Barmanbek
#34. He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott
#35. Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.
Pablo Neruda
#36. The truth of my circumstance climbs into the bed with me and takes up too much room.
Kristin Hannah
#37. It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
Alex Lowe
#38. I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.
Alex Honnold
#39. I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
Marcia Gay Harden
#40. The tide climbs. The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous. On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars.
Anthony Doerr
#42. In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#43. Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
Celia Thaxter
#44. The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'
Stephen Covey
#46. The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.
Sarah MacLean
#47. Lea
when a man climbs a glass mountain, it's not usually for the damn golden apple. It's for the person he gives the apple to.
Laura Florand
#48. Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.
Donald Rumsfeld
#49. Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway,
#50. A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Edmond De Goncourt
#51. Francis Ford Coppola - A man climbs a mountain and they call him a hero. I climb mountains that aren't even there.
Madeline Moore
#52. Mountaineering is a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its own particular charm. One is constantly searching for something never to be found.
Hermann Buhl
#53. Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
Aeschylus
#54. Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary
#55. It's not the one who climbs beneath your bedcovers who satisfies you. It is the one who climbs beneath your skin.
Sawyer Belle
#56. A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.
Robert Musil
#57. Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. Ryke belongs with nature, able to withstand the seasons and time just like the rocks he climbs. He keeps going, he keeps moving, and he picks everyone up when they've fallen behind.
Krista Ritchie
#60. Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.
Steve Truglia
#61. A life without a storm would lack drama. Pounding waves of a tempestuous sea test a person's mettle. A fearless sailor climbs the rigging and shouts out at the top of their lungs into the wind and rain whipping across their face that they will not go quietly into the good night without a fight.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#62. Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.
Alex Honnold
#63. That's how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even 'the plainest' of them, the least exhibitionist, because it's not always the man himself who climbs on stage. If he doesn't do it, someone will put him there. That is his fate as a man.
Milan Kundera
#66. We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#68. He climbs highest who helps another up.
Zig Ziglar
#69. As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.
Jean-Louis Gassee
#70. But some climbs you have to make alone.
Ellyn Bache
#71. You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.
George R R Martin
#72. The overall number of single women in America starts at a high of 34 percent in 1890, slides down one percent per decade, all the way to the bottom point of the V - 17 percent in 1960 - and then climbs back up and up, 2 percent per decade, to 53 percent in 2013.
Kate Bolick
#73. The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.
William C. Bryant
#74. There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.
Arthur C. Clarke
#75. So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time.
Patrick Ness
#76. Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
John Berger
#78. Classy.' Mara shines the flashlight on my chest as she climbs into the beached boat and sits across from me.
'It was either this ["Bass Man" sweatshirt] or "Master Baiter". Or freezing to death.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#79. The translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.
Lydia Davis
#80. The first (and so far only) blind person to climb Mount Everest. Today he climbs with a grid of over six hundred tiny electrodes in his mouth, called the BrainPort.30
David Eagleman
#81. It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The
reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
George Sand
#82. The drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable - except when you see it happen in the drawing room.
Frank Herbert
#84. Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
Maria Montessori
#85. This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
Dante Alighieri
#86. For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#87. That as he climbs out of the trench
with the rest of the lads
he feels lifted up as if by angels.
Caroline Davies
#88. The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski
#89. He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
Walter Scott
#90. So little for a woman is permissible- yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.
Janet Benton
#91. I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process of writing: one climbs and is continuously moving with each book. Becoming a mother is the greatest connection I've ever felt to being spiritual.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#92. A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
Carl Andre
#93. Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for.
Alex Honnold
#94. The fog dissipates. The water turns cold. The door to the shower opens, and the knobs are turned to the off position and he climbs in with me, him fully clothed in contrast to my shivering, blue skin, and we sit there together, his arms around me, until I can breathe again. AT
Heather Lyons
#95. Night climbs its long underground staircase.
It recalls what it has to tell us.
Karen Solie
#96. A real mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it.
Miranda July
#97. The picnic shakes as Pigpen climbs it from behind, then plants himself next to me. "We should change your road name to F-U-F. Fucked-Up and Forlorn.
Katie McGarry
#98. He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.
Charles Spurgeon
#99. And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young.
Hans Borli
#100. The higher up the tree a cat climbs, the farther it will fall. It's the same for politicians, except politicians don't bounce.
Michael Dobbs
