Climbing Quotes

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

— Reinhold Messner

I'm always climbing.

— Tommy Caldwell

Experience comes from bad judgment.

— Mark Twain

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

— Ron Kauk

Vy can't ve chust climb !

— John Salathe

A la Verte on devient montagnard.

— Gaston Rebuffat

Climbing is an understated culture.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Goddamn it ! His parka doesn't fit me !

— Steve Roper

Routes rate me, not the other way around.

— Andy Cairns

The attractive thing about rock climbing: There are no rules.

— Dean Potter

I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.

— Jon Pardi

“This again. Climbing. It’s like I’ve died and become Spider-Man.”

— Wynne Channing

“The hardest part of climbing isn't going up, it's coming down.”

— Annie Reyer

It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

— Cesar Romero

I don't think kids climbing up the leg of someone is a big deal.

— Teresa Giudice

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

— Thomas Hoving

I've been accident-prone since I was a kid climbing trees and falling out. I've come off a few motorcycles.

— Vic Reeves

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession…

— Shay Mitchell

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights…

— Willi Unsoeld

Climbing for me is about being free. It's just to move and be uninhibited and feel and tap into the connection with…

— Dean Potter

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,

— Robert Lowell

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.

— Alex Honnold

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the…

— Traci Lords

Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too…

— John F. Kennedy

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our…

— Gus Van Sant

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest…

— Raha Moharrak

Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage…

— Doug Scott

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn…

— Michael Johnson

I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons…

— Chris Bonington

On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we…

— Lionel Terray

Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the…

— Martin Scorsese

The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which…

— Annie Besant

Back when I was younger, I would have no fear climbing a ladder. I couldn't wait to get to the top just…

— Jeff Hardy

For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together…

— Walter Bonatti

I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from,…

— Jason Clarke

[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that…

— David Attenborough

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I…

— Pietra Brettkelly

“You looked strange climbing in the tree like that." Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find…

— Hortense Odlum