On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death. — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it. — Alex Zanardi Copy Share Image
“You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.” — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening. — Kim Stanley Copy Share Image
“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins. — Saku Koivu Copy Share Image
Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed? — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I… — Ray Park Copy Share Image
that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand. — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
