Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

The first thing they do when they come here is go to the top of the mountain and wonder why they can't breathe.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

Friedrich Schiller

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Joichi Ito

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Rich Mullins

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

Willie Geist

Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.

Wole Soyinka

We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

Walter Benjamin

I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.

Wangari Maathai

I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.

Raha Moharrak

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

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...

Lewis Mumford

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

Sam Abell

There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.

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.

Rory Stewart

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Rick Bass

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

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.

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.

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.

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.