Mountain Quotes

The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.

And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.

Lord, we don't need another mountain.

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done.

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy." Cat

I hate the beach - I'm a mountain guy. I'd much rather face a bear than a shark.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt.

Roll us down the mountain and I'm sure the fatman would win.

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

On every mountain height is rest.

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

If you embrace possibility thinking, your dreams will go from molehill to mountain size, and because you believe in possibilities, you put yourself in position to achieve them.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land.

I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

Love can climb the highest mountain or sink to the lowest depth

I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.