Quotes About Heights

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.

I jumped off a 30ft diving board for a dare once and it wasn't fun.

Not he but Trotsky had risen to the heights of glory as Lenin's right-hand man in the Revolution and the Civil War.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.

most of the Trollocs had moved off the Heights to attack below.

unwitting that those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

And on Inkerman yet the wild bramble is gory, And those bleak heights henceforth shall be famous in story,'   quoted

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

was now living on Haven Avenue, in Washington Heights

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Up up up and into nowhere

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

My family can tell you I'm not really a guy that likes roller coasters. I don't like going on Ferris wheels. I've got a six-feet rule; I like my feet no more than five, six feet from the ground at all times.

We return to climatic concerns with the Volturnalia of 27 August. Volturnus was a devastating wind, 'whirling around on the heights' (Lucr., 5, 745)

I come to call down my destiny - and it is tall and dangerous!

A pygmy upon a gyants shoulder may see farther than the [giant] himself.

up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky...

Eliot knew the Heights well enough to have spent as little time there as possible while growing up. The town's small downtown had some class, especially the Hotel Victoria, designed by Louis Sullivan, but it was a thin facade. Three blocks in any direction and you felt like you might be set upon by wild dogs.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I take my leave, And hasten to the heights that I have longed for, Leaving my shadow still to be with you.

The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. HABAKKUK 3:19