38 Quotes About Climbs

  • Author Lucy Maud Montgomery
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    As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

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  • Author Arthur Clough
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    And not by eastern windows only, / When daylight comes, comes in the light, / In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, / But westward, look, the land is bright.

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  • Author Graham Chapman
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    Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

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  • Author Michael Cadnum
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    When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.

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  • Author Ruth Cisero
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    He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house all the time.

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