Quote by Herman Melville

“Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to…

— Herman Melville

“You look up when you feel the need for elevation. And I look down because I am elevated. Who among you can laugh and…

— Neitzsche

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the…

— Anne Bonny

“The higher a man climbs, the farther he has to fall.”

— George R.R. Martin

“who hadn’t at some point in his life wanted to climb to the top of a sailing ship in full flight?”

— Lev Grossman

“I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new wall always…

— Joyce Cary

“The heights by which great men reach are not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept went toiling upwards through the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A man is tallet than any mountain he climbs.”

— Owenville

The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to…

— David Breashears

“They rise highest who lift as they go.”

— Kevin Hall

“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having little or…

— Herman Melville

“Everyone in life climbs a mountain. Those that reached the top will try to throw you off by throwing sticks, dirt, and stone. You…

— Zeenat Farooq