Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jeanne Moreau

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

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.

Louis L'Amour

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

I really didn't they were going to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Jack Kerouac

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

Jeremy Jones

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

Jeff Bridges

I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the United States version of Kingsman. I'm like how Michael Caine was in the original.

George Saunders

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

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.

Mark Tobey

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

Seth Godin

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

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.

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.

May Sarton

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

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

John Wooden

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

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.

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.

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.

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

They're like very steep, peaked mountains -- and only the tops are vegetated,

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

I'm going to set the strategy, we're the consultant, we're going to walk down from the mountain and we're going to give it to people.

Peter Davenport

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