Climbing Quotes - page 3

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring. (Clive Standen)
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. View quote
David Ginola
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. View quote
Ella Maillart
My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite. View quote
Madeline Carroll
I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain. View quote
Michael Ovitz
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 into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom. View quote
Sam Mendes
I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes. View quote
Steve Daines
I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women. View quote
Samina Baig
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women. View quote
Samina Baig
I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up. (Tim Kaine)
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that. View quote
Tamae Watanabe
We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains. View quote
Tamae Watanabe
I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun. View quote
Taylor Kinney
Dedicated to eccentrics, madmen, residents of the Far North - heroes of Russian anecdotes, as well as to all those who died while climbing Mount Everest. View quote
Viktor Pinchuk
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 see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia? View quote
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
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 a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. I have my reasons why I want to be filthy rich. It's so I can buy the last first growth forest and turn it into a permanent national park. I just bought 800 acres on the border of Panama and Costa Rica. View quote
River Phoenix
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
Yes, maybe it's just one colossal big joke with no point to it.” Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. "But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here's one monkey that's going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A second sun blazed white and swelled visibly as he watched. What on Earth would have been-so many times had been-a climbing mushroom cloud was here in open space a perfect geometrical sphere, growing unbelievably. It swelled still larger, dropping from limelight white to to silvery violet, became blotched with purple, red and flame. And still it grew, until it blanked out the earth beyond it. At the time it had been transformed into a radioactive cosmic cloud Circum-Terra had been passing over, or opposite, the North Atlantic; the swollen incandescent cloud was visible to most of the habitable portions of the globe, a burning symbol in the sky. (Robert A. Heinlein)
I was kind of a tomboy climbing trees so it never crossed my mind, no. View quote
Rachel Weisz
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. View quote
Andy Rooney
Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers. It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her possession before he would walk alone, and as for climbing - my, but how stupid he was! View quote
Edgar Rice Burroughs
For me, one of the most empowering outcomes of my year of climbing has been the new narrative I can tell about myself. I am no longer "Adrianne: scholar, book lover, pianist, and Wikipedian”. I am now "Adrianne: scholar, book lover, pianist, Wikipedian, and rock climber”. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz