(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand. What you've been out there searching for forever is in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The top has no limits. We can keep on climbing. That's what people do. No-- That's what I do.” — Ryohgo Narita Copy Share Image
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or “by his own,” as the children sometimes charmingly put it.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I have climbed mountains for more than twenty-five years, and only once on an assault of an 8,000er did I ever use… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
The diet for climbing all the time isn't really different from the diet for living. It's not like cardio sports where you're… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
It's not just back-to-back Super Bowls - it's back-to-back Super Bowls in his first three years, it's back-to-back Super Bowls climbing over… — Michael Irvin Copy Share Image
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Despite the dangers and discomforts, climbing is for many an all-consuming passion. They interrupt, end, or never start their careers, focusing exclusively… — Bob Madgic Copy Share Image
“I came to win, came as I always do, in order to justify who I am and what I have become; now… — Andy Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such… — Herzog Maurice Copy Share Image
I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba. — Temple Fielding Copy Share Image
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No… — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day. — Frank Stock Copy Share Image
Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route. — John Bachar Copy Share Image
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. — Chris Darwin Copy Share Image
Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
I don't like talking about climbing that much. You don't have to discuss; just do it. — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
