Climbing Quotes

597 Climbing quotes by 400 unique authors

I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a… — James McAvoy
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and… — Jeanne Moreau
It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was. — Jeanne Moreau
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals… — Donny Osmond
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer… — William Lyon Phelps
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just… — River Phoenix
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. — John Ruskin
The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our… — Gus Van Sant
When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know,… — Andy Serkis
You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees,… — Mattie Stepanek
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and… — Lewis Thomas
Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a… — Mark Udall
Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed… — Mark Udall
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills. — Earl Wilson
When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing… — Neill Blomkamp
He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment… — Peter Ackroyd
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,… — Albert Einstein
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill. — Roger Zelazny
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no… — Robert Frost
Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves… — Bell Hooks
The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every… — Nancy Garden
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered… — Nelson Mandela
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above… — Rene Daumal
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. — Kurt Vonnegut

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