Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katarina Witt

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

John Lennon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On every mountain height is rest.

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.

Terry Pratchett

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.

Terry Pratchett

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot see the mountain near...

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.

Stanislaw Lem

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

Tommy Cooper

I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.

Tim Ferriss

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

Roman Polanski

I like skiing, among other things, because I have moments when I am alone in the mountains. That's fantastic, when there's nobody around you. You see miles around you, and the sun is almost down .

Rumi

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

Rick Bass

The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.

Lewis Mumford

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

Raha Moharrak

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

Rory Stewart

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.

T. S. Eliot

In the mountains, there you feel free.

Sylvester Stallone

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Rumi

The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness.

Rumi

Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Victoria Moran

I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

Victor Hugo

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

Robert Frost

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

Rich Mullins

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Umberto Eco

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

Troy Polamalu

In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it's a great area to be outside.

Rick Danko

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Rebecca Solnit

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.