Climbs Quotes - Page 30

• What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.

  Bill McKibben

  Talking, Long, Comfort

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• Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Is, Meditation, Ladders

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• The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.

  Gilbert F. White

  Cheer, Struggle, Moving

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• As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.

  Jamie Bell

  Wall, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Issues, Excellence, Mediocrity

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• That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Thinking, Ivy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.40

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• Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

  John Dryden

  Tree, Verbs, Nouns

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.353

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• O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.

  John Keats

  Rivers, Solitude, Foxgloves

  John Keats (2016). “Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Other Poems”, p.13, Michael O'Mara Books

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• When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

  Hugh Sidey

  Country, Travel, Humble

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• Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

  Paul Klee

  Fear, Struggle, Want

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Mountain, Knows

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• Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

  Adyashanti

  Eye, Winning, Velvet

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• Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Success, Fall, Winning

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.246

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• You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Mind, Enlightenment

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• And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."

  George H. W. Bush

  Girl, White, House

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Buttons, Elevators

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• Love can climb the highest mountain or sink to the lowest depth

  Jon Jones

  Love, Mountain, Depth

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• I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.

  Bear Grylls

  Mountain, Tvs, Three

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.

  Bear Grylls

  Adventure, Needs, Earth

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.

  Wintley Phipps

  Son, Mountain, Smooth

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• Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.

  Charles Woodson

  Mean, Winning, Games

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Dying

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• My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Food, Humor

  "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.

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• You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

  Bill Vaughan

  Effort, Deep Thought

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• There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Two, People, Ceilings

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