Mountain Quotes (155)
Quotes and citations about mountain
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time.. view
By: Fritz Zwicky
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!.. view
By: William Butler Yeats
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise... view
By: Brock Yates
You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains... view
By: Link Wray
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills... view
By: Earl Wilson
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains... view
By: Tennessee Williams
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks... view
By: Tennessee Williams
When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view... view
By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains... view
By: Patrick White
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time... view
By: Barbara Walters
We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day... view
By: Jim Wallis
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain... view
By: George C. Wallace
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating... view
By: Denis Waitley
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!.. view
By: Jules Verne
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was... view
By: Ben Vereen
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher... view
By: Morihei Ueshiba
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another... view
By: Brenda Ueland
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity... view
By: Mark Udall
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it... view
By: Cicely Tyson
I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air... view
By: Shania Twain
I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do... view
By: Christy Turlington
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend... view
By: David Trimble
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish... view
By: David Trimble
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here... view
By: Wislawa Szymborska
My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by... view
By: Ryan Sypek
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States... view
By: Simeon Strunsky
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering... view
By: Patrick Stewart
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral... view
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet... view
By: Anne Stevenson
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor... view
By: Laurence Sterne
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band... view
By: Paul Stanley
I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking... view
By: Sylvester Stallone
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top... view
By: Joseph Smith, Jr.
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching... view
By: Sivananda
It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened... view
By: Georges Simenon
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world... view
By: Georges Simenon
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains... view
By: William Shakespeare
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out.. view
By: Robert W. Service
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe... view
By: Robert Service