Mountain Quotes
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.
The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.
After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.
Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.
Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
I realized pretty quickly just how big and aggressive some of the mountains were down in Nagano Prefecture.
This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow
Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams
See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.
I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.
Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.
Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.
The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.
Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.
If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13, 796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.
Be thankful for every mountain, because it's the mountain top that will give you best view of the world.
One day I asked God to move the mountain ahead of me, but he said no because he wanted me to experience the joy of being on a mountain top.
The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!
No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .
When I reach my mountain top I will step off and follow the clouds all the way to the top of the world.Once there, I'll probably keep going.Who knows?Perhaps I will meet God along the way.
When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.
The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!
To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).
The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.
As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.
We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.
When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.
Believe that your life is not ordinary and never look down on what you can do to impact a life.
You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.
Your resources could go to where your hands could not reach.
Look up and hook up to a life of significance and don’t look down on yourself.
You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance.
For your life to have meaning is to discover what you are meant to fulfill.
Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.