Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.
A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.
Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head. ”-max
To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.
The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there. ' That's utter nonsense. . . You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.
Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
I climbed like a billion stairs. . . its not like I can take them two at a time.
If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.
