Quotes About Ascent

I am going to start at the bottom and work my way still further down.

apply shingles from the bottom up.

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

A medida que el viejo funicular ascendía lentamente la pendiente vertiginosa, Edmond Kirsch contemplaba la cumbre irregular de la montaña.

I am an expanding universe swimming upward in a silent sea.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

the descent follows the ascent—to wisdom as to despair. A man is under the crassest necessity to break down the pinnacles of his moods fearlessly — to the bases; base! to the screaming dregs, to have known the clean air .

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

étrier step, pulled delicately on the next one, and tried

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

Launched from tiny ankles, their legs shot up like guided missiles into atmospheres of private height.

The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

climbed higher up the tree and along

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

Up is never where you are now.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always — will always be — there.

No more free steps to heaven. - It's No Game

It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs.

But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

slope was too steep up or down or the

Into the sky to win or die.