I Climbed Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm…
— Naomi Watts
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All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the…
— Joe Abercrombie
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
— Zong Qinghou
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There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed…
— Larry Ellison
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I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then letting go. On…
— Royal Robbins
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I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the…
— Wes Borland
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite…
— Galen
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The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was…
— Johnny Weissmuller
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I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.
— Stefan Kieszling
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My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
— Teresa Heinz
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in…
— Ann Patchett
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
— Felix Baumgartner
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.
— Alain Robert
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Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
— Evelyn Glennie
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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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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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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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I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with…
— Bruce Chatwin
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One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a…
— Khaled Hosseini
Who Wrote These I Climbed Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 40 I Climbed Quotes, led by these top contributors: