Best Climbers Sayings
67 Climbers quotes by 52 unique authors
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There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
— Henry Rollins
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As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself…
— Rachel Weisz
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Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
— Jon Krakauer
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For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
— Roland Smith
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When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
— John McPhee
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People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the…
— Khalil Gibran
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But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he…
— William Shakespeare
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I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of…
— Terry Pratchett
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This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but…
— Jon Krakauer
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The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he…
— William Arthur Ward
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Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can…
— Jason Mraz
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Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face…
— Charles Duhigg
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I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.
— Alex Lowe
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