“Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”

“The window-lights, myriads and myriads,
Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.”

“The track temperature is at 32 degrees celsius already and it's climbing like a mountain face at the moment.”

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”

“There are the breezes of early morning; for the sun on emerging from beneath the earth strikes humid air as he returns, and as he goes climbing up the sky he spreads it out before him, extracting breezes from the vapor that was there before the dawn.”

“This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.”

“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.”