Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

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.