Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Maureen O'Hara

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

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another, one wall after another.

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another.

Robert Chapman

This is a mountain heritage. We're not out to annihilate the bear.

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.

Yucca Mountain is such a mistake. There needs to be more research done on the alternatives.

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.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot see the mountain near...

Lewis Mumford

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

Rick Bass

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

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.

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.

Stanislaw Lem

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

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.

Raha Moharrak

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

Bob Iger

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

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.