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Robert Browning Quote: “Like dogs in a wheel, birds…”

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

November 25, 2019 1812, English, May 7, Quotes by Poets, Robert Browning

Martin Luther Quote: “First I shake the whole Apple…”

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

October 4, 2019 1483, German, Martin Luther, November 10, Quotes by Leaders

Bradley Chicho Quote: “Highest of heights, I climb this…”

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

May 12, 2019 1895, Bradley Chicho, English, February 5, Quotes by Poets

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: “He who would learn to fly…”

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

April 21, 2019 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche, German, October 15, Quotes by Philosophers

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: “Whenever I climb I am followed…”

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.

April 10, 2019 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche, German, October 15, Quotes by Philosophers

Maya Angelou Quote: “We write for the same reason…”

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

March 16, 2019 1928, American, April 4, Maya Angelou, Quotes by Poets

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote: “Truth cannot be brought down; rather…”

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

December 25, 2018 1895, Indian, Jiddu Krishnamurti, May 12, Quotes by Philosophers

Seamus Heaney Quote: “Then as the years went on…”

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

October 25, 2018 1939, April 13, Irish, Quotes by Poets, Seamus Heaney
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