climbing quotes

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

- Robert Lee Frost
  'Birches'.

Climbing over rocky mountain, Skipping rivulet and fountain.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Girls'chorus, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

They were always†getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

-James B(arrett) Reston
  Of John F, Robert F and Edward M Kennedy. Deadline.