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Quotes About Climb

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
Once I graduated from university, I wanted to climb and be outdoors as much as possible. I worked as a part-time carpenter and kept up a relationship with The North Face. One thing led to another, and I'm lucky to be where I am now. It was a circuitous path with lots of adventure throughout.
~ Conrad Anker
down had started to climb the walls.
~ Peter Watts
The bar where I want to get to is astronomically high.
~ Greg Hardy
As I write these words, half a year has passed since I returned from Nepal, and on any given day during those six months, no more than two or three hours have gone by in which Everest hasn't monopolized my thoughts. Not even in sleep is there respite: imagery from the climb and its aftermath continues to permeate my dreams.
~ Jon Krakauer
You're standing on an escalator and you're watching the people go past on the opposite escalator. If you could climb inside their brains you would see we aren't all the same. We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, misshapen society. They're the rocks thrown into the still pond.
~ Jon Ronson
There is a ladder.The ladder is always therehanging innocentlyclose to the side of the schooner.
~ Adrienne Rich
I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.
~ Fred Durst
I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.
~ Charlotte Dujardin
It's hard to start from the bottom.
~ Lou Duva
We each have our path. There are many routes up the mountain, but they all end at the peak.
~ Ram Dass
There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree.
~ Ray Bradbury
Or maybe you are my own life scheming desperately to climb back in.
~ Joy Harjo
What a barbaric way to rise into the air, hauling your own carcass up inches at a time.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
For success there is no ladder or elevator, if you want to reach the top, you have to climb."
~ Wesley D'Amico
There is always room at the top.
~ Daniel Webster
The difference between our outlook and the Socialist outlook is the difference between the ladder and the queue. We are for the ladder. Let all try their best to climb. They are for the queue.
~ James C. Humes
Turning to him, Spurgeon said, "If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.
~ James MacDonald
I do not believe in demons," he murmured, "but only in my Father Who is in Heaven. Only in Him - and in my other father, who has climbed on this mountain before me.
~ James Ramsey Ullman
Not only around our infancyDoth heaven with all its splendors lie;Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,We Sinais climb and know it not.
~ James Russell Lowell
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
~ Alain Robert
Roland searched for a place that would be safe to climb, and found a staircase on the exposed inner wall of a house. The top step was the highest part of the house: everything above it, including the bedroom floor, had been knocked down. Roland tested his weight, but the wood was firm, so he went up.
~ Alan Garner
Above their heads by three feet was an opening in the roof. 'A chimney,' said Jimmy. 'You climb up by putting your back to one side and feet to the other.' 'What if it widens too much?' asked Laurie. 'Then it's usual to come back down. The rate of descent is up to you. I suggest you do it slowly.
~ Raymond E. Feist
The higher I climb, the deeper I understand my fears; the bigger the mountain, the clearer the view I have of my own existence.
~ Reinhold Messner