Mountain Quotes
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?
I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
If I have all the faith so as to move mountains,but do not have love,then I an nothing.
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.
Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.
I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light.
A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.
It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.
A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.
Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.
You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.
I'm playing golf. I ride my mountain bike. A lot. I think it's very important for me and other people my age to continue to exercise.
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains
Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.
Shepherd. It's a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me because...I come from a life with shepherds and mountains and all that stuff.
Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man
I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.
But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.
O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?
The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.
She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.