Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington Copy Share Image
I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs. — Steve Roper Copy Share Image
Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race,… — David Rudisha Copy Share Image
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat… — John Muir Copy Share Image
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there… — Matthew Henson Copy Share Image
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My grandmother caught me climbing the highest tree in her yard, the one we were all forbidden to attempt. All five feet… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
Just when the mountain looks too high, the obstacles too great between you and your goals you suddenly see The beautiful blue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you? — Don Whillans Copy Share Image
