Climbs Quotes - Page 12

• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Thinking, Hands

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• People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Society

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• How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.

  Rose Macaulay

  Hate, Heart, Breathing

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
  A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
  And death was safety and great joy to find;
  But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

  Michelangelo

  Wings, Feet, Safety

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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• Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fall, Genius, Now And Then

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus”, p.102, 谷月社

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• We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Writing, Rights, Years

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• Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
  Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
  Smote the surrounding fields.

  Homer

  Morning, Ocean, Heaven

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.193

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• the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

  Gladys Taber

  Real, Moving, Steps

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Dirty, Giving

  "Angelina Jolie still digs stunt work, mom time". Interview with Dean Richards, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 25, 2010.

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• It's hard for me to climb things. That's why I always play Assassin's Creed because it gets me feeling like I can.

  Ty Simpkins

  Play, Feelings, Assassins

  "JURASSIC WORLD: Ty Simpkins Talks Landing His Role, the Gyrosphere, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

  Karyn Kusama

  Climbing, Goal, Mountain

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Water, Darkness

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• Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss;
  Heaven once a week;
  The next world's gladness prepossest in this;
  A day to seek;
  Eternity in time; the steps by which
  We climb above all ages: lamps that light
  Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich
  And full redemption of the whole week's flight.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dark, Men, Light

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Kissing, Years

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• Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
  To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

  George Peele

  Honor, Mind, Spurs

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.421

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• I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Hate, Believe, Gay

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• You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Littles, Ladders, Willing

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.70, Penguin

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• As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

  Mitch Daniels

  Waiting, Tonight, Ladders

  "GOP blasts Obama for engaging in class warfare". www.cnn.com. January 25, 2012.

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• One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Character, Superhero

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

  Umberto Eco

  Mountain, Pace, Entering

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.559, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

  Richard Eyre

  Thinking, World, Cliffs

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• The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Giving, Empathy

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• One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

  Bear Grylls

  Exercise, Tree, Vines

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• To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Couple, Swimming

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• I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Trying, Ladders, Casting

  "Neil Patrick Harris is just keeping busy". Interview with T.L. Stanley, articles.latimes.com. July 15, 2011.

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