Quotes About Heights

She must bring her song to the stone heights, to the dwellers inside. They would take her in, their sister of the mountains. They would bring her home.

I used to be the third person in the secret jets we had - they were secret at the time - a jet bomber that flew at immense heights carrying atomic bombs.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.

There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

I found my account in climbing a tree once. It was a tall white pine, on the top of a hill; and though I got well pitched, I was well paid for it, for I discovered new mountains in the horizon which I had never seen before—so much more of the earth and the heavens. I might have walked about the foot of the tree for threescore years and ten, and yet I certainly should never have seen them.

Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

I am astonished by the various kisses we're capable of. Each from different heights diminished, which is simply the law. And the big bruise from the long fall looked perfectly white in a few years. That astounded me most of all.

I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast.

I always had a phobia of heights, but since I've been flying more regularly I have no problem with it now. I just go to sleep.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

Chi tende continuamente verso l'alto deve aspettarsi, prima o poi, di essere colto dalla vertigine.

Aquel que quiere permanentemente «llegar más alto» tiene que contar con que algún día le invadirá el vértigo.

Cel ce tinde sa urce mereu mai sus trebuie sa se astepte ca, intr-o buna zi, sa-l surprinda ameteala. Ce inseamna ameteala? Teama de a cadea? Dar cum se face ca ne cuprinde ameteala chiar atunci cand ne aflam pe o belvedere prevazuta cu o balustrada solida? Ameteala e altceva decat teama de a cadea. E vocea golului de sub noi, care ne atrage, ne ispiteste, trezind in noi dorinta caderii, careia ne impotrivim apoi, cu teama.

I personally love heights and roller coasters, I'm such an adrenaline junkie.

Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.

I'm absolutely terrified of heights, so maybe it's something I'd like to do in the future... although even saying it scares me! But I would absolutely love to overcome my fear of heights.

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

Rollan didn't like when his horse had to walk near a drop-off, as they were now. He was allergic to the whole falling thing.

Tiffany was not afraid of heights at all.  She could walk past tall trees without batting an eyelid.  Looking up at huge towering mountains didn't bother her a bit. What she was afraid of, although she hadn't realized it up until this point, was depths.