Quotes About Heights

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

There's a myth on the Internet that I'm afraid of heights. I don't know where that came from, but it isn 't true.

No way, you wild man. You aren't Tarzan. I don't like heights. Put me down." "Close your eyes. Who is Tarzan? Not another male, I hope.

Alamut could be reached only astride eagles.

A couple of hundred feet above the panoramic route Fiona was travelling back to the city, Kit was opening a heavy pair of wooden shutters with ornate iron fittings.

The high she'd felt when he took that first breath had gone. Like getting to the top of a roller coaster: there was a nanosecond of pure exhilaration before the headlong plunge into fear.

No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer...

I had begun this journey following him into the hidden corners of his world and here it ended with him crossed over into the brightest heights of mine.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Viewed from the heights of reason, all life looks like some malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.

My dreams leap — dancers of the night, reaching heights unknown to the day.

This is a contour map where I may read With reverence your soul's geography— The heights, the depths, stark valleys of our need, The luminous peaks of love's bright ecstasy. The lines become more lovely with the years...

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

Lincoln has been my first love, and as always with first loves, it fixed a standard. So I scaled sunlit heights with Lincoln and produced the colossal marble head in the rotunda of the capitol of the United States.

I can still remember my first experience of standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon and looking into it. It was so awesome, it took a fair amount of restraint to prevent me from jumping into it, because I was certain I could fly.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

I'll never forget fighting on top of a cell with Shane McMahon.

It was America, after all. The sort of place where you should be allowed to walk as high as you wanted. But what if you were the one walking underneath? What if the tightrope walker really had fallen? It was quite possible that he could have killed not just himself, but a dozen people below. Recklessness and freedom - how did they become a cocktail?

The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche.

His home is in the heights: to him Men wage a battle weird and dim... The perilous music that he hears Falls from the vortice of the spheres...

un om intrat sub st?pânirea propriului s?u suflet; È™i-l ducea prin locurile s?lbatece ale vieÈ›ii, în abisuri È™i-n ascuÈ›iÈ™ul sâncilor, sus, spre culmile ninse ale unei lumi neumblate.

It is my time. The time of maximum ride...