Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

W. S. Merwin

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

Gary Snyder

Streams and mountains never stay the same.

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.

Horace

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Horace

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

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.

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.

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!