Famous quotes containing the word climbs:
“The fastest foot climbs to the top first.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Follow in the footsteps of your fathers’ virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers’ will climbs with you?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“What is this conversation, now secular,
A speech not mine yet speaking for me in
The heaving jelly of my tribal air?
It rises in the throat, it climbs the tongue,
It perches there for secret tutelage....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)