Top 1200 Mountain Climbing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We as mountaineers have had a leading role in the destruction of the mountain wilderness environment that we practice our sport in.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

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.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

Qing Cheng Mountain was a direct influence on the mysterious final shot of 'Kung Fu Panda 2.'

When you're worrying about crime rates, go help teach kids to read at a young age so that their chances for climbing out of poverty and achieving success in school and life go up.

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.

Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

I want to continue to climb up the mountain of life and try to get everything that God has for me.

I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

My hike up the Snake Path at Masada was mystical. The fog rolled in, enveloping the entire mountain.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

Do not fail to learn from The pure voice of an Ever-flowing mountain stream Splashing over the rocks.

Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

In 'Bigg Boss 12' house one needs to make a mountain out of a molehill. It's an art and I don't specialise in it.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

I absolutely believed Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger loved each other in 'Brokeback Mountain.'

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Bouldering on real rock, which I'm more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas competition-style boulder problems are about coordination.

He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man.

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.

I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasnt allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

I'd never been one for leaving the comforts of home. That person wasn't me; I didn't spend my formative years youth-hostelling round Rwanda or climbing Everest in a tie-dye playsuit to raise awareness of something or other.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!

I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.

I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

I was always being athletic, climbing trees and running after boys, just being trouble. It was always in me.

[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a job or start trying to make some real money from it. I didn't want to be 45 and a dirtbag.

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.