Hiking Quotes - Page 16

• I am climbing a difficult road;
  but the glory gives me strength.

  Propertius

  Strength, Climbing, Giving

  "Elegies, IV". Book by Sextus Propertius, poem 10. 3,

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• Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Climbing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Humor, Men, Mountain Peaks

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18

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• Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Body, Earth

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.28, Penguin

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• Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Hints

  "Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.

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• A woman is as young as her knees.

  Mary Quant

  Journey, Knees, Sauntering

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• I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

  Douglas Wilson

  Distance, Believe, Space

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

  Paul Valery

  Dance, Journey, Dancing

  Talk on BBC Radio, January 13, 1976.

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• When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

  Jim Butcher

  Journey, Thinking, Jumping

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.256, Penguin

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• We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

  River Phoenix

  Climbing, Hands, People

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

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• If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

  Donny Osmond

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

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• I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

  "Demetri Martin: Wry comic originally planned to be a lawyer". Interview with Chad Jones, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2014.

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• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  Carl Jung

  Hands, Progress, Earth

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

  Bill Janklow

  Mountain, Looks, World

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• I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

  Julia Ward Howe

  People, Faithful, Ambitious

  Entry in the journal for June 07, 1874. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.

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• Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

  Helen Hayes

  Stay Strong, Self, Discipline

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

  Ashley Greene

  Inspirational, Dance, Swimming

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Dream, Fall

  Lord Jim ch. 20 (1900)

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• When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Climbs

  "Michael Caine And Wife, Shakira Caine, Look Oh So In Love In Vintage Photos". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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• We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

  George W. Bush

  Mountain, Valleys

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

  Bill Bryson

  Nice, Sleep, Europe

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  A. C. Benson

  Work, Ambition, Men

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• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Horse, Food, Journey

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

  Beatrix Potter

  Lying, Flower, Eye

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