Climbing Quotes - Page 20

• If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Knights, Hands, Track

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1851). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.235

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• King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Bird

  William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.478

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

  Albert Einstein

  Views, Vision, Mountain

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• The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

  Jean Paul

  Dance, Running, Exercise

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• You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.

  Todd Skinner

  Death, Suicide, Life Is

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• It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

  Francis Kilvert

  Men, Mountain, Fool

  W. Plomer (ed.) 'Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert' (1938-40) 29 May 1871

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• When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

  Henry Miller

  Pain, Regret, Fall

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

  Alistair Cooke

  Fall, Golf, Men

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.146, Arcade Publishing

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• Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Flower, House, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.244, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

  John Bachar

  Matter, Solo, Stores

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• Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

  Alain Robert

  Beautiful, School, Self Confidence

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• The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.

  Royal Robbins

  Errors, Self, Skills

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• The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.

  Todd Skinner

  Dying

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• I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.

  Bradford Washburn

  Lasts, Solo, Minutes

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• Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

  John Dean

  Time, Mountain, Skates

  1977 On conviction after the Watergate scandal. In Newsweek, 4 Jul.

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Skills, Self, Hands

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Children, Animal, Expression

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• Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Baby, Couple, Opportunity

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• The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

  Nancy Garden

  Views, Mountain, Hard

  Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

  Leif Enger

  Pain, Real, Climbing Up

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

  Alice Hoffman

  Love You, Angel, Home

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.11, Penguin Group

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• When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Aunt, Doctors

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• 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

  Dad, Thinking, Space

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

  Bear Grylls

  Bigs, Throwing, Has Beens

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