Climbs Quotes - Page 28

• During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.

  Richard Preston

  Moving, School, Shining

  Richard Preston (2007). “The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring”, p.231, Random House

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• In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Baby, Bird, Tree

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• Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

  Careers, Horizon, Quests

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

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• When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

  Chinua Achebe

  Tree, Sun, Bigs

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.99, Anchor

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• Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Men, Expression, Sticks

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Cutting, Government, Tree

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• Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

  Anne Frank

  Dark, Wings, House

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

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• I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

  Marcel Proust

  Imagination, Mind, Slides

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

  Josephine Preston Peabody

  Inspirational, Looks, Path

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• The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Book, Garden

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• The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Determination, Block

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• I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.

  Shirley Bassey

  Kids, Feet, Safety

  "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

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• I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

  Cathy Rigby

  Hurt, Parent, Bed

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• When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Animal, Hands, History

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• Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline

  French Montana

  Stars, Rocks, Mouths

  Song: All For You, 2014

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• I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.

  Hattie Carnegie

  Thinking, Ladders

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• Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!

  CM Punk

  Stupid, Wwe, Ladders

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• Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Perseverance, Two, Quality

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• Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Truth, Ladders, Matter

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.285, Faber & Faber

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• The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Moon, Voice

  "Ulysses" l. 55 (1842)

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• In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine.

  Connie Francis

  Valentine, Dating, People

  Song: Where The Boys Are

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• Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Loneliness, Gun

  Song: Love Calls You By Your Name, Album: Songs of Love and Hate, 1971

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• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  Sebastian Junger

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

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• We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  God, Mountain, Worship

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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