Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Ehud Barak

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

Marilyn Monroe

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

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.

James Dyson

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

Mark Twain

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

Nathan Parsons

I usually head up to the mountains or out into the desert. Somewhere nobody is. There I can dig deep and find the core that got me where I am today. It's sort of like my reset button.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

Neil Young

Like a mountain that's growing.

John Armstrong

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

Ted Nugent

We use our tax dollars to pay some bureaucrat to kill a mountain lion, dig a hole and bury this precious beast. No one gets to eat it, nobody gets to buy licenses, fees and taxes themselves. And that's only after a mountain lion has killed somebody! Oh my God! And the Osbournes are still No. 1!

Michael Bloomberg

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

Laurence Gonzales

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

Louis L'Amour

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

Michel de Montaigne

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Paul Nurse

I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.

Oswald Chambers

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

Karl Philipp Moritz

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

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.

Eve Best

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

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.

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.

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.

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.]

Horace

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Horace

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

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.