Quotes About Ascent

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

Off we go into the wild blue yonder,Climbing high into the sun.

if there's no need to climb, then there's no reason to learn how to climb.

the top of one mountain is the bottom of the next.

The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards the world of ideas, there to participate in the divine version of reproduction, which is the understanding and the passing on of eternal truths.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

so was the road to heaven.

How high did I get?" I wanted to know.

The road to Heaven is ascension; always climb upward.

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

Life's a climb, but the view's great.

His sentences are in homely English, and yet there is something Roman in the easy handling of clauses, and something Greek in their ascent from analogy to idea.

He / thought of women. / What is it like to be a woman / listening in the dark? Black mantle of silence / stretches between them like geothermal pressure. / Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as / lava. She listens / to the blank space where / his consciousness is, moving towards her. Lava can / move as slow as / nine hours per inch. [...] She wonders if / he is listening too. The cruel thing is, she falls asleep / listening.

Trant's deep need to climb ever upward, crushing anyone in his path, the qualities, while making Trant an interesting associate at times, at others made him decidedly predictable and boring. After all, a ladder contained a single directional path. Someone like Trant rarely tried the twisting vines, tree branches, and handholds to the side.

eight times more people die on Everest on the way down than on the way up.

It's like lifting off in an airplane: you're on the ground, on the ground, on the ground... and then you're up, riding on a magical cushion of air and prince of all you survey. That makes me happy, because it's what I was made to do.

The higher a man rises, the more things he must do without. There's no room on the pinnacle except for the man himself. The more perfect he is, the more complete; and the more complete, the less other.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.