Mountain Quotes - page 2

O Caledonia stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood. (Walter Scott)
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. View quote
Frank Herbert
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. View quote
Ann Patchett
Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions. View quote
Dale T. Mortensen
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace. View quote
Linda McCartney
You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt. View quote
Mike Pence
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 quote
Brenda Ueland
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world. View quote
Dirk Benedict
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. View quote
William Henry Ashley
The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it. View quote
Maimonides
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. (Umberto Eco)
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 quote
Shania Twain
.. the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers.... one of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'....(abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have. View quote
Willem de Kooning
America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. View quote
Thomas Campbell
Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism. View quote
Anastas Mikoyan
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. View quote
Jack Kerouac
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand. (Carrie Underwood)
The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, "Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!" View quote
Margaret Cho
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain. View quote
Mark Tobey