Mountain Quotes

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

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.

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.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

Right on through today, my lungs and stamina are my engine. I'm not nearly the strongest guy or the most flexible, but I can definitely sustain pace on the mountain.

There are reports that Kim Jong Un climbed North Korea's highest mountain. Kim Jong Un said all it took to climb that mountain was hard work, determination, and lying about climbing that mountain.

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

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

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

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

I will believe that what God has placed inside me is superior to the mountains that stand in my way

Men meet; mountains, never.

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

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

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.

Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.

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.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

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

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

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

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

I never looked around me because it might freak me out, because if you're up on a mountain you don't wanna like, look down.

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.

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

[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.

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

The strong smells I remember are all floral. There's nothing like a farm rose to take you back to the mountains and the meadows. I'm a mountain girl, a meadow girl, so I feel very close to that.

Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.

Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.