Quotes About Ascent

Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath, until they seemed no longer to be rising but I to be falling...

Mientras no dejes de subir no tienen término los escalones; bajo tus pies que ascienden, crecen ellos hacia lo alto.

You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and once you sell out clubs you're into theaters. I've been able to get there, and it's cool to do that.

climb high, sleep low

The Alpine path, so hard, so steep, That leads to heights sublime.

Dzi?ki pragnieniu latania, przede wszystkim wznoszenia si?, tancerze stali si?, podobnie jak anio?owie, ogniwem ??cz?cym cz?owieka i Boga, niebo i ziemi?.

run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story

Ride higher in life unto the higher life.

Mount Everest!

I think the true ascent of man, the moment when humans divided irrevobably from apes and other fellow creatures, occurred with the birth of the first distinct soul. And much happiness ensued.

ACCLIVITY  (ACCLI'VITY)   n.s.[from acclivus, Lat.] The steepness or slope of a line inclining to the horizon, reckoned upwards; as, the ascent of an hill is the acclivity, the descent is the declivity.Quincy.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

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.

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

He rais'd a mortal to the skies,She drew an angel down.

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

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed

The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

She wants to ascend to the exotic, to what infatuates the sentences yet tears open the mind.

De ángel en ángel vamos, de ala en ala

My heaviness comes from the heights.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.