Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields. — Homer Copy Share Image
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
As you climb of the organizational ladder, you have to redefine your role in the value chain from player to captain to… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease,… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.' That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me -… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest.… — Tenzing Norgay Copy Share Image
I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride… — Denise Van Outen Copy Share Image
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Every mountain needs someone to climb it, Every ocean needs someone to dive in, Every dream needs someone to wish it, Every… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing. — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image