Quote by Polly Shulman

“You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.”

— B. Barmanbek

“Arlo: Show her the ropes. Finn: Where do we keep the ropes again?”

— Julie Anne Peters

“Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall…

— Deva Fagan

“A memory from before: his sister arriving home from school with her new jump rope trailing behind her on the sidewalk. "They let me…

— Julie Otsuka

“What do they call a bed a rope for?’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘Bless your innocence, sir, that ain’t it,’ replied Sam. ‘Ven the lady…

— Charles Dickens

“The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.”

— Malorie Blackman

“She untied her ropes, her frazzled oily grimy ropes that held her down into the littered marshlands of a life too long lived in…

— Ella M. Kaye

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“When the twins asked what cuff-links were for—“To link cuffs together,” Ammu told them—they were thrilled by this morsel of logic in what had…

— Arundhati Roy

“Vertically, I climb your body’s majestic rhyme.”

— Delano Johnson

“She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb—upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the…

— James Baldwin

“The top has no limits. We can keep on climbing. That's what people do. No-- That's what I do.”

— Ryohgo Narita