Climbing Quotes · Page 6

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

— Chris Bonington

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

A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward…

— Dean Potter

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

— Doug Scott

Climbing is what I do.

— Anatoli Boukreev

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

— Maxine Cheshire

I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock…

— William Shockley

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree…

— Robert Frost

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

— Edmund Hillary

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel…

— William Arthur Ward

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your…

— J. K. Rowling

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me.…

— Maurice Sendak

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that…

— Hari Kunzru

I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction…

— Alfred Wainwright

I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what…

— Meg Cabot

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

— Carson McCullers

Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you…

— Justin Bieber

“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or…

— Joseph O'Neill

One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.

— Don Whillans

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

— Samina Baig

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement.…

— Wil McCarthy

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing…

— George Leigh Mallory

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

— Charles Bukowski

Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals…

— Chris Sharma