Famous Quotes & Sayings

This park was not set up to preserve the mountains and the glaciers, it was set up to preserve the elk herd. It was originally Mount Olympus National Monument, to preserve the Olympic elk.

It was disappointing because we just couldn't mount any pressure throughout the game,

Havelock Ellis

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

Henry David Thoreau

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

Jeremy Jones

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

Jeff Bridges

I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the United States version of Kingsman. I'm like how Michael Caine was in the original.

George Saunders

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

Gary Snyder

Streams and mountains never stay the same.

Eve Best

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

Horace

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Horace

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

Ehud Barak

The Temple Mount is (the) only place under dispute,

Bob Iger

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

I'm going to set the strategy, we're the consultant, we're going to walk down from the mountain and we're going to give it to people.

I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front.

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

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

James Dyson

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

Frank Herbert

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.

Greg Mortenson

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

Karl Philipp Moritz

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Jeanne Moreau

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

Horace

What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

Jack Kerouac

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

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Jonathan Edwards

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Katarina Witt

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

Paulo Coelho

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Plutarch

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

Jim Rohn

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

George Leigh Mallory

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.