Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

Joan Rivers

Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome.

John Burroughs

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

Joel Salatin

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

John Lennon

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

Jim Rohn

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

George Leigh Mallory

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

Frida Kahlo

Only one mountain can know the core of another 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.

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.

Karl Philipp Moritz

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

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.

Jonathan Edwards

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Katarina Witt

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

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.