Climbs Quotes · Page 16

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as…

— Angela Davis

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of…

— Sylvester Stallone

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your…

— Marcia Gay Harden

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for…

— Terry Brooks

I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the…

— Nikki Sixx

Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability…

— Glenn Beck

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have…

— Karl Marx

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy…

— Jodi Picoult

When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in…

— Richard K. Morgan

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to…

— Paul Newman

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I…

— Gabriela Mistral

All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things.…

— Michael Ende

You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When…

— Gerry Rafferty

When I was 17, I blew out my knee bouldering, and I wasn't able to climb for a year. It was hard…

— Chris Sharma

The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of…

— Gaston Rebuffat

The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location…

— Gilbert F. White

I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the…

— Michael J. Fox

There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And…

— Edmund Spenser

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks…

— Luther Burbank

You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her…

— Peter Lerangis

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But…

— Nelson Mandela

Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder,…

— R. Scott Bakker

Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our…

— Greg Child

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

— Royal Robbins

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by…

— Ruth Park

We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current…

— Jack H. Goaslind

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the…

— Virgil

Heaven...a place where there is neither sufferings, sadness nor separation... Now we climb the stairways to heaven one step by one step…

— Stairway To Heaven

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the…

— Hermann Buhl

My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight…

— Max Lucado

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape…

— William C. Bryant

(to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your…

— Eoin Colfer

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when…

— Ed Viesturs