You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way. — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's… — Susan Dunlap Copy Share Image
I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience. — Ruth Orkin Copy Share Image
For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb,… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of… — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are… — Andy Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending.… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from,… — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really… — Natalie Grant Copy Share Image
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too. — Adam Ondra 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
I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you — Wanda Rutkiewicz Copy Share Image
Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to… — Reinhold Messner 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
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late. — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed. — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges. — Abdellatif Kechiche Copy Share Image
