Mount Quotes

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce)
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. View quote
Abdul Kalam
Happier of happy though I be, like them; I cannot take possession of the sky, Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, One of a mighty multitude whose way; And motion is a harmony and dance; Magnificent. View quote
William Wordsworth
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. View quote
Harry S. Truman
As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the eye to come back to the United States. View quote
Rick Santorum
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. View quote
Robert Jordan
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus. View quote
Anne Rice
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Heaven is not gained by a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies; And we mount to its summit round by round. (Josiah Gilbert Holland)
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die. View quote
Edmund Hillary
Of all the fire-mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. View quote
John Muir
Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt. View quote
Christiaan Huygens
I should like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. View quote
George Bancroft
The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. View quote
Plato
If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density. (Johannes Kepler)
Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men. View quote
Martin Luther
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind. View quote
Ronald Reagan
So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it. View quote
Rick Riordan
I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat. View quote
Rick Riordan