Quotes About Heights

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump?

And soon enough, she was sold on the fine art of hang gliding above the busy earth.

Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.

Monkey bar, Annabeth said. I'm great at these. She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.

I looked at Thalia. You're afraid of heights. Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. Don't be stupid. That explains why you freaked out on Apollo's bus. Why you didn't want to talk about it. She took a deep breath. Then she brushed the pine needles out of her hair. If you tell anyone, I swear— No, no, I said. That's cool. It's just… the daughter of Zeus, the Lord of the Sky, afraid of heights?

Tell me when it's over Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most important thing in the world. Everything's fine I promised. Are... are we very high I looked down. Below us a range of snowy mountains zipped by. I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off one of the peaks. Nah I said. Not that high.

A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.

Man's strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

In the morning we sometimes notice the scattered specks and flakes gathering together, growing and spreading into the magnificent cumulus, stacked up in gigantic heaps, till the afternoon sun glorifies a range of sky-mountains, beside whose stupendous heights earth's loftiest range is dwarfed, and whose summits are white as no fuller on earth can white them.

We are not only having a great audience for Punjabi films in north India but we are also seeing growth in other places like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Indore, etc. And the overseas audiences have always been good for us. Without them we couldn't have taken Punjabi cinema to such heights.

I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

For, looking up, aware I somehow grew, 'Spite of the dusk, the plain had given place All round to mountains - with such name to grace Mere ugly heights and heaps now stolen in view. How thus they had surprised me - solve it, you! How to get from them was no clearer case.

You've no fear of heights, puffed the girl. None, I said. I've heard that about you.

And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me ... everything was silent--everything. But up in the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent. I listened so long to this ceaseless faint murmur that it began to bewilder me; it was surely a symphony from the rolling spheres above. Stars that intone a song....

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

Four other old folk emerged one by one to join their brother. All five siblings wore cheap polyester clothes, and standing in a group they looked very much alike. They differed only in their heights, like the fingers of a single hand.

The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

They lifted up and drifted beyond the ledge, the world opening up beneath them.

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

I need you to recover your senses and let your poor bodyguard onto that roof.

We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top--the twinkling electric lights below mingling with the stars--Father said something I will never forget. He said, 'See here, Queenie. Look around. You've got the whole world at your feet, lass.