Mountain Quotes

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

Ain't no mountain that I can't climb, baby

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

If you are under control you're going too slow.

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.