Quotes About Ascent

The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course.

Soar high, sweet

When you spend your whole life living in a hole," he said, "the only way you can go is up.

When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up.

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.

No. I don't think so. It isn't about whether I die. It's about figuring out where. And I've decided. I'm going to see how high I can go. I want to see if it's true. If the sky opens up at the top.

The process of ascent and decline of cities is both rooted in history and changed by it. Successful urban areas today must still resonate with the ancient fundamentals—places sacred, safe, and busy. This was true five thousand years ago, when cities represented a tiny portion of humanity, and in this century, the first in which the majority live in cities.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

And with a measured haste propel Yourselves from heaven through the world to hell.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

To ascend, to stretch a hand up the mountainside until a hand catches it, was the end for which he had been born.

Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed; Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme; Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, But climb.

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

losing our boss that way had left a bitter taste, because it appeared to confirm our belief that a certain level of congenital stupidity, such as the kind he displayed like a flag, could augur a meteoric ascent in the juristic hierarchy.

Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven.

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths.

If the Albanian Museum of Atheism followed its Soviet prototype, the exhibits would have traced the ascent of Man from amoebae to Enver Hoxha. We

There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.

It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.