Quotes About Heights

I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.

I waver, continually fly to the summit of the mountain, but cannot stay up there for more than a moment. Others waver too, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught up by the kinsman who walks beside them for that purpose. But I waver on the heights; it is not death, alas, but the eternal torments of dying.

I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or in some high precarious position my hand starts sweating and I get that crawling feeling in the soles of my feet.

If Spider-Man had to appear on the 90th floor of the Empire State Building, the crew would take the elevator up, open the window and say: 'OK, Nicholas, out you go!' There were no tricks or computer effects.

New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

But Herbier was much too fond of Africa and it's people to feel sorry that he had never been able to to contemplate them from the administrative heights: a fine view, perhaps, but a distant one.

The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.

In midair, dangling lost above the world.

When storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the hills of the Chankly Bore.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

My heaviness comes from the heights.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

We sleepwalkers of the day! We artists! We who conceal naturalness! We who are moon- and God-struck! We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety.

Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high.

There are heights of the soul from which even tragedy ceases to look tragic; and rolling together all the woe of the world -- who could dare to decide whether its sight would necessarily seduce us and compel us to feel pity and thus double this woe?

Todavía no eres libre, todavía buscas la libertad. Tu búsqueda te ha vuelto insomne y te ha desvelado demasiado. Quieres subir a la altura libre, tu alma tiene sed de estrellas. Pero también tus malos instintos tienen sed de libertad. Tus perros salvajes quieren libertad; ladran de placer en su cueva cuando tu espíritu se propone abrir todas las prisiones72.

When we look out for the Barbarian, we look in the depths. But there is another type of Barbarian, who comes from the heights.

What would I hold on to up there? His great ears? What if I fell and pulled an ear off with me, or grabbed his silver pendant and swung from his neck like a bell clapper? "No, thank you.

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.