Quotes About Climb

Everest Base Camp, where you actually begin to climb the mountain at 17,600 feet, is higher than all but two points in the United States, both in Alaska. Interestingly, you cannot see the upper part of Mount Everest from Base Camp. As it is, you are huffing and puffing by the time you get there, and you wonder when you finally arrive, exhausted, just how in the world you're ever going to survive. We arrived on April 7.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....

I regret the negative press that has come with my climb of the Delicate Arch, but I think that there is a bigger picture. And I would hope that it could open the eyes of the public and the community to the bigger problem of what's going on, which is the mismanagement of our wild lands and the national park.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

We climb three flights of warped stairs and walk into a whoosh of body heat and

It's only when you're at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.

We're on the roof of the Serenity Plastics Works—the highest point of our universe for our entire lives. Every time you look up, there it is. Eli puts it into words. "This must be how it felt to stand on the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.

Her thick, black plait of hair was the rope by which a man might climb to heaven.

The forms of thought, into which we throw our timid views of God, are but symbols of truths greater than our thoughts. Yet we may not set them aside as worthless, for they are the rungs on which we dwellers in the cave climb to the full view of the Truth, as he is.

I like the skill set required to be an outdoorsman - to cook food over fire and to climb rocks without ropes, to move around using nothing but yourself and maybe some rudimentary tools.

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

As a player, I started in Serie C and got to the top of Europe and the world.

You don't feel accomplished when you get that first step on the ladder. You feel accomplished when you're on top of the ladder. I want to be on top, and I'm going to do everything in my ability to get there.

It's good to go down because then you know you have to climb back to your old spot. And you can't be on top and not know that you can only go down.

The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top.

I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.

They seemed to trust my scrappy climb out of the lower class would allow me to handle on first sight all manner of eating utensil by imitating, chimpanzeelike, their movements.

He started up the ladder. When he was nearly

All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder.

Now, your trajectory is heavenward. That makes you hopeful. Even a man on a sinking ship can be happy when he clambers aboard a lifeboat! And who knows where he might go, in the future. To journey happily may well be better than to arrive successfully….

The cinematography and the conditions in which 'Meru' was filmed drew me to the project. It's remarkable to think that everything in the film is real; these three men set out to attempt this impossible climb and to film it at the same time.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

I want to go higher and higher and keep improving.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.