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Quotes About Climbing

Memories pummeled Mariah as she climbed up the precarious wooden porch riddled with termite holes.
~ Lori Wilde
If your faith doesn't remove the mountain... Get to climbing.
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
He admonished them never to think of themselves as the strongest or smartest. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it, he warned. When the animals climb to the top of the mountain, they are even higher than it is.
~ Jack Weatherford
Balancing parenthood with the lifestyle of a professional climber is tricky and it certainly helps to have a supportive partner. For me it has been quite a juggling act to manage all the demands on my time in both my personal and public life. But like climbing itself, the most challenging experiences are usually the most satisfying. Motherhood is certainly more challenging than any climb I've done, but there's nothing greater than the sense of love I feel for my child.
~ Lynn Hill
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.
~ Chris Sharma
Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?
~ Boris Vian
One must be willing to minimize their dependence on others, and just rely upon God, faith, and their own heart in order to keep climbing higher in life.
~ Unknown
Usually upright-growing, bush roses need no support and grow from less than six inches to over six feet tall, depending on the variety and climate. Bush roses are further subdivided into five categories: hybrid tea, floribunda, grandiflora, miniature, and heritage, or old, roses.
~ Maggie Oster
So far from complete at times is sympathy between parents and children, and so much like wild beasts are baby boys, little fighting, biting, climbing pagans.
~ John Muir
so much like wild beasts are baby boys, little fighting, biting, climbing pagans.
~ John Muir
I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.
~ Holly Black, White Cat
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
~ Hari Kunzru
It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.
~ Unknown
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
as the saying is, climbing in opposition to my
~ Marcel Proust
The instructors were consumed with abdominal strength, the reasons for which are now obvious: the abdomen is the bedrock of a warrior's strength for climbing rocks and ropes, rowing, lifting, swimming, fighting, and running.
~ Marcus Luttrell
Speaking of which Ã¢â'¬Â¦ how many lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "Please." She rolled her eyes. "Three. One to climb the ladder, one to shake it, and one to sue the ladder company. Old as the hills.
~ Unknown
I'd rather climb 14a and eat whatever I want than climb 14d and measure out my food.
~ Unknown
A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
~ Jimmy Chin
I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That's another reason why I climb.
~ Unknown
Inheritance-tree climbing happens only on attribute reference, not on attribute assignment.
~ Unknown
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
~ Yvon Chouinard
No goal is too high if we climb with care and confidence.
~ S. Truett Cathy