Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Burroughs

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

Joel Salatin

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

Peter Falk

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

Rabindranath Tagore

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

John Lennon

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

Mark Tobey

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

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.

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!

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.

Louis L'Amour

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

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.

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.

Laurence Gonzales

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

Seth Godin

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

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.

Tenzing Norgay

I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

Nora Roberts

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

John Wooden

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

May Sarton

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

Maureen O'Hara

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Matt Smith

No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.

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.

Peter Davenport

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

Lance Armstrong

It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.

Laini Taylor

I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned