Climbs Quotes - Page 37

• - Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Want, Trekking

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• The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.

  Isaac Watts

  Stars, Heaven, Soul

  Isaac Watts (1856). “Twenty-Eight Divine Songs for the use of Children”, p.21

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• The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

  Roger Angell

  Home, Feet, Two

  Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Distance, Team, Risk

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Monkeys, Ass, Shows

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• To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Moving, Neighbor

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.38, Paraclete Press

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• Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.

  John Wooden

  Focus, Effort, Mountain

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• We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Legs, Path

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ladders, May, Ascent

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• For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Apples, Tree, Picks

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• ... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, Lonely, Heart

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• My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Political, Males, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Bishops, Embodiment

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

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• The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry intotheir secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,--their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb the summit of Ktaadn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pride, Simple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.558, e-artnow

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• The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Order, Feet, People

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• If you are in a deep dark well with no rope to climb, hold on to the hope, because it is also a strong rope!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Dark, Rope

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• Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars

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• Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lonely, Together, Way

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• With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Numbers, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moon, Long, Long Day

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 44

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• If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.

  Don Herold

  Mistake, Ice, Rivers

  "If I Had My Life to Live Over" by Don Herold, www.beliefnet.com. October 1953.

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• Shakira's music isn't my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole.

  Brandon Boyd

  Moving, Feelings, Tea

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• We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Country, Degrees, Uphill Climbs

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• As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Achievement, Nuclear, Normal

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.598, Best Books on

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• My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb the walls of the tunnels and that it represented my mother's womb, for some odd reason. I was reading Stanislawski at the time and Spielberg's response was "Why don't you just act."

  Josh Brolin

  Mother, Wall, Reading

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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