Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eve Best

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

I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front.

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.

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.

Jeanne Moreau

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

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.]

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.

Laurence Gonzales

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

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.

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!

Louis L'Amour

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

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.

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.

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.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Havelock Ellis

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

Ellis Peters

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On every mountain height is rest.

Khalil Gibran

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

Og Mandino

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

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!

Eric Thomas

You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!

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