Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some… — Greg Child Copy Share Image
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out… — Jim Bridwell Copy Share Image
I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know you enjoyed tree climbing.' 'Tree reading actually. It’s an art which should not be conducted while lethargic….” — Grace Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself. — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're… — John Bachar Copy Share Image
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs, and you don't whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girls… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I'm climbing into a vehicle that has a powerful influence on our culture. I'd like to make it do something good. The… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which… — Duncan Ferguson Copy Share Image
There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. Maybe you train really… — Wolfgang Gullich Copy Share Image
We as young men need just one of our peers to stand up and trust his God completely and without reserve. We… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast…a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic…So get out there and hunt and fish and mess… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
I remember climbing Mont Ventoux at the end of the day, and it was so, so hard. You have already three, four… — Zdeno Chara Copy Share Image
...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they… — Gilberto Simoni Copy Share Image
“That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain,… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
We recorded Star Climbing over a three-year period between our studios, working on songs and lyrics until we felt like we had… — Stuart Price Copy Share Image
Bouldering on real rock, which I'm more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas… — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay,… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain -… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
