Climbing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
-- Abdul Kalam -
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
-- Abraham Verghese -
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
-- Al Alvarez -
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
-- Alain Robert -
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
-- Alain Robert -
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, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
-- Albert Einstein -
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.
-- Allen Steck -
My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.
-- Allen Steck -
Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?
-- Andy Cairns -
But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
-- Andy Serkis -
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, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
-- Andy Serkis -
Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
-- Andy Serkis -
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
-- Annie Smith Peck -
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
-- Aristophanes -
C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.
-- Armand Charlet -
The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.
-- Aron Ralston -
I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.
-- Aron Ralston -
Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!
-- Arthur Guiterman -
If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
-- Banksy -
There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
-- Bear Grylls -
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
-- Bear Grylls -
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
-- Bear Grylls -
Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
-- Bill Walton -
I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
-- Bradford Washburn -
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
-- Bruce Feiler -
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
-- Bruce Feiler -
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.
-- Carrie Underwood -
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
-- Carson McCullers -
I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.
-- Cat Cora -
Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we weren’t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!
-- Caterina Fake -
It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.
-- Cesar Romero -
I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.
-- Charles Yu -
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.
-- Charlie Fowler -
Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.
-- Chris Bonington -
If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
-- Chris Bonington -
Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.
-- Chris Darwin -
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.
-- Chris Noth -
Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in tune, you have some days where you don't feel that good. It's this never-ending process. Accepting that and enjoying that for what it is, that's really where the life of climbing is.
-- Chris Sharma -
Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end of the world - or the entire world either.
-- Chris Sharma -
Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.
-- Chris Sharma -
With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.
-- Chris Sharma -
In climbing, a fundamental thing is to want to do something you've never done before. That's the beauty of climbing, whether you're a girl or boy, seasoned veteran or beginner. You're not sure you'll be able to do this, but you try, and discovering you are capable is an amazing experience and an amazing feeling.
-- Chris Sharma -
The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.
-- Chris Sharma -
Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.
-- Christa B. Allen -
As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.
-- Christopher Bollen -
Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
-- Claude Bernard -
I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.
-- Clive Standen -
And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
-- Cy Twombly -
When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.
-- Dan Osman -
I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -
I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.
-- Dave Cook -
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world...
-- Dave Cook -
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 hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.
-- David Breashears -
I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.
-- David Ginola -
Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
-- David Kenyon Webster -
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.
-- David Lange -
Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.
-- David Rudisha -
There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.
-- David Schuller -
Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.
-- Dean Potter -
About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.
-- Deke Slayton -
One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.
-- Don Whillans -
Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?
-- Don Whillans -
You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!
-- Don Whillans -
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.
-- Doug Scott -
If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?
-- Doug Scott -
Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives.
-- Doug Scott -
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.
-- Doug Scott -
Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.
-- Doug Scott -
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.
-- Doug Scott -
Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.
-- Doug Scott -
Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.
-- Duncan Ferguson -
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
-- Earl Wilson -
The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!
-- Eddie Izzard -
Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.
-- Eddie Vedder -
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
-- Edmund Hillary -
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
-- Edmund Hillary -
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
-- Edmund Hillary -
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
-- Edmund Hillary -
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
-- Edmund Hillary -
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
-- Edmund Hillary -
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
-- Edmund Hillary -
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
-- Edna Ferber -
In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.
-- Edward John Trelawny -
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
-- Elbert Hubbard -
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
-- Ella Maillart -
My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.
-- Eminem -
At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.
-- Eric Jay Beck
