Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
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Alun Lewis (1915–1944) Welsh poet
"The Mahratta Ghats", line 22; p. 44.
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets (1945)
“Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.”
Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer
From her hit single, So Small from the album, Carnival Ride (2007).
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 3
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Climbing
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“Who never wins can rarely lose,
Who never climbs as rarely falls.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
To James T. Fields, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage
Commencement Speech at University of Southern California http://graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0067-schwarzenegger.htm (May 2009). <br class="br">2000s