Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Edward Hoagland

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller....

Edward Hoagland

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

Bear Grylls

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Bear Grylls

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.

Charlie Munger

We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain.

Charles Manson

We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm sixty times the pope. But I'm the pope in the hills and in the mountains.

Arthur C. Clarke

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

Baltasar Gracian

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

William Shakespeare

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

Daniel Handler

It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

Daniel Handler

If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an uncomfortable place to lay one's head, even if you find a dish towel inside it that can serve as a blanket.

Craig Kelly

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

Benjamin Graham

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.

She just reminds you that you can go over that mountain and reach your goal.

Eddie Redmayne

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

Let us not make a mountain out a molehill, ... not Time or Newsweek.

Mike Hargrove

Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill. He'll be back tomorrow.

We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park.

We don't have mountains and aquariums and polished wood flooring,

Aldo Leopold

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Mount Vernon has always been very supportive of the program.

Mount Pleasant has a solid team from top to bottom. They have the most solid lineup of any team in the WPIAL.

Jase Robertson

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

Carl von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Artie Lange

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once youre laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what Im saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.

Anya Seton

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.