A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight.… — Philippe Perrin Copy Share Image
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of… — Allen Steck Copy Share Image
