Mountain Quotes

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when?

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want.

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady

When the mountain quaked Like an elbow's nudge Like a shout that something is wrong The people awoke and Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come

You know I can’t go out there. There’s daylight outside. (Ravyn) Well, that’s what happens when the big yellow ball comes up over the mountains. Amazing isn’t it? (Susan)

Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain.... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.

The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.

When you lose a goal so early, you've always got an uphill mountain.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.