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Ascent Quotes by Royal Robbins
- Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be…
- A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song
More Ascent Quotes
- Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,… — Bahá'u'lláh
- The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti
- As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to… — David Steindl-Rast
- The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams
- At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain
- There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon
- Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi
- I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven;… — Samuel Rutherford
- Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
- Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled… — Virginia Woolf
- In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I… — Lucy Irvine