Mountain Quotes - page 18

What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over. (Randall Munroe)
As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant. View quote
Reza Aslan
I don't see that we have much choice," I said, "since we don't have anyone who can grow wings." "I will push you off this mountain," Sam warned. "All right," Blitzen decided, "let's try it. I mean the rune, not pushing Magnus off the mountain. View quote
Rick Riordan
Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
For every mountain there is a miracle. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you're climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can't see where you've come from or where you're going. View quote
Syd Field
For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading. View quote
Sonam Kapoor
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional. (Stacy Schiff)
We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline. View quote
Tippi Hedren
Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate. View quote
William Davis
Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy. View quote
Famke Janssen
I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm. View quote
Charles Frazier
I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school. View quote
Charles Frazier
I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit! View quote
Vanilla Ice
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself. View quote
Ice Cube
Life is never like a canal, flowing gently through a straightforward and predictable channel. It is more like a mountain brook, zigging and zagging, tearing things up, sometimes going almost dormant before taking an unexpected and turbulent turn. View quote
Glen Cook
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. (Graham Joyce)
There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart. View quote
Jack Kornfield
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts. View quote
Jamie Ford
Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown. View quote
Jonathan Carroll