Mountain Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

Men meet; mountains, never.

I saw God! Do you doubt it? Do you dare to doubt it? I saw the Almighty Man! His hand Was resting on a mountain!

Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.

Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?

I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch