Climbed Quotes
195 quotes by 175 authors
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Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws…
— Edward Hoagland
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It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
— Roger Bannister
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Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old?…
— Thomas Hood
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On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've…
— William Gibson
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed…
— Herbert Hoover
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As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came…
— James McGreevey
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I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I…
— Steven Morrissey
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I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest…
— Michael Palin
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
— Ayn Rand
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I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on…
— Shania Twain
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My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we…
— Steven Tyler
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In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,'…
— Tamae Watanabe
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
— Mae West
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
— John Henry Newman
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Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill…
— Michael Ende
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I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked…
— John Steinbeck
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Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She…
— James Joyce
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We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of…
— Michael Ondaatje
Who Wrote These Climbed Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 195 Climbed Quotes, led by these top contributors: