Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Hillary

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Edward Ruscha

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

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Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.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

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.

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.

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

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.

William Shakespeare

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

They're like very steep, peaked mountains -- and only the tops are vegetated,

Donald Miller

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I really didn't they were going to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Jack Kerouac

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

Peter Davenport

I have not just a mountain of data, perhaps a mountain range of data,

John Muir

Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.

John Muir

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

John Muir

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.

John Steinbeck

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

Mark Tobey

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

Seth Godin

Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.

Michael Bloomberg

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation