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Quotes About Climb

If you want to overcome death itself, whose armor is sleep, dream, and dullness, you must climb from one step of awakening to the next. Imagine: the lowest step of this heavenly ladder is called "genius." What name shall we then give to the highest ones? They remain unknown to the multitudes and are considered to be legend
~ Gustav Meyrink
Whoever would rise, must first descend, for only then can the bottommost rise to the top.
~ Gustav Meyrink
darted in first, my pistol up. Lori came in behind me. I scanned the shitty little apartment quickly. Bedroom, bathroom, nothing. The window was open, and I muttered "Shit" as I wedged myself onto the fire-escape landing. It was a long way down. Cops with a thing about heights shouldn't climb around on fire escapes. But there was no choice.
~ James Patterson
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
~ Gustav Mahler
No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.
~ Staness Jonekos
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
~ Abby Wambach
'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
~ Jon Voight
Since I made my debut at Sheffield United, I felt like I could step on and climb the leagues.
~ Harry Maguire
Todos estamos en el Camino, y esta vía va siempre ascendiendo, con frecuentes sitios de reposo.
~ Three Initiates
My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.
~ Neil Marshall
If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.
~ Of Mice and Men
I've never found any elevators in life; I've had to climb to every place worth reaching. And now I think it over, I wish it so with everybody, for then no one would rise any higher than he deserves to go. I
~ Orison Swett Marden
On the mountain the limestone shelves and climbs in ragged escarpments among the clutching roots of hickories, oaks and tulip poplars which even here brace themselves against the precarious declination allotted them by the chance drop of a seed.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The life of a soldier seemed like a climb up a stairway without any stairs, only the wooden supporting spine of preagreed ritual. Step away from that spine and anything might happen -- to you, by you.
~ Cynthia Bass
Why must one climb the hill ? Why must one climb? Why not stay below? Why force one's way up the slope? Why force one's way up and up, when one is at the bottom? Oh, it was very tiring, very wearying, very burdensome. Always burdens, always, always burdens.
~ D.H. Lawrence
All that stands between the college graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
~ Middlebury Blue Baboon, 1927
Constantly risking absurdityand deathwhenever he performsabove the headsof his audiencethe poet like an acrobatclimbs on rimeto a high wire of his own making
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
You might think that climbing a mountain is half the battle, only to find out that the mountain goats who live at the top are vicious, and heavily armed.
~ Lemony Snicket
I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.
~ James Patterson
The road to success runs uphill.
~ Willie Davis
I like the big ups. I'm into the big ups.
~ Juice Newton
No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.
~ Muhammad Ali
There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.
~ Al McGuire
The first climb won't be for another thirty kilometers, at Les Vignes. I'm longing for it, just like when I'm doing it I'll long for it to be over.
~ Tim Krabbe